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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."

2 of 191 comments (clear)

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

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

  2. 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."