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Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster

Posted by kdawson on from the deep-red-cocoa dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Zen and the Art of Programming published an article about MacRuby's new experimental 0.5 branch (project blog entry here). According to the included benchmarks, Apple's version of Ruby could already, at this early stage of its development, be about three times as fast as the fastest Ruby implementation available elsewhere."

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  1. That's because it's spiked with assembly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard it made a guy in Michigan's head explode! That's why I stay away from the experimental stuff, man.

  2. How they did it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sleep(30); /* used to be 90 */

  3. Re:Why MacRuby Matters? by Artuir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever I read posts like these I start to wonder if I accidentally walked into a Starbucks.

  4. Re:Why MacRuby Matters? by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suspect that someday in a future version of the Mac OS, Ruby will be a first-class language for application development alongside or perhaps replacing Objective-C.

    Wouldn't that require Ruby being a first-class development language in the first place? ;)

    Yeah, yeah, go on and mod me troll, I can handle it.

  5. Re:Why MacRuby Matters? by Macthorpe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, yeah, go on and mod me troll, I can handle it.

    Alright then!

    Wait a minute...

    Shit.

    --
    "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
  6. Re:true, but seems unnecessary by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    PS: Do you want me to punch you in face? You see, C++ is one of my favorite languages :)

    I don't like the feeling of being punched in the face, which is one of the big reasons I don't code in C++ or Java. But if that's your thing, you should keep at it! :)