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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. All right! by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    My wife's 17" macbook is now my dev machine! She can surf on my old XP box that takes a half hour to boot. All I have to do now is learn Ruby.

  2. Re:Why MacRuby Matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The least used scripting language on the least used platform. Yes indeed, that matters - not.

  3. Re:true, but seems unnecessary by Cyberax · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can write in Scala, it's very nice. Although, I'd like to see better support for its type system in the JVM.

    It's the unofficial 'next Java' for JVM.

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

  4. Who cares? by scurvyj · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who cares? Ruby should just die.

  5. Re:Why MacRuby Matters? by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 1, Troll

    Just let me know when Objective C succeeds in replacing anything else, first.

  6. Re:GCC avoids high level interprocedural optimizat by jcr · · Score: 1, Troll

    Now go play in your closed source world and leave the grownups alone

    Grownups need to make a living, sunshine. Very few people can get a MacArthur grant and extend their adolescence indefinitely.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."