Martin DeMello <martindemello / yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<m4ftc.603356$Ig.361204@pd7tw2no>...

> > > Nice that we are now faster than python, but there is still room for
> > > small improvements.
> > > You can find my version here: 
> > > http://flwrpwr.free.fr/Ruby/bench/bench27.rb
> > 
> > Thanks for taking a careful look at what could be done.
> 
> Isn't the point of the benchmark to compare straightforward code that
> can be reasonably be said to be equivalent in all the various languages?

Martin, I don't understand what point you're making - spell it out for
me.

There is one obvious difference between the language implementations -
the Smalltalks, Pythons, and Ruby use numeric literals in the Tcb
class. That's pretty questionable ;-) (Other differences are probably
unintended.)