Austin Ziegler wrote: > On 8/15/05, Isaac Gouy <igouy / yahoo.com> wrote: > > Austin Ziegler wrote: > > > On 8/15/05, Isaac Gouy <igouy / yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Bradley Kite wrote: > > > > > I was also interested in comparing the performance of Ruby against something > > > > > like Perl, and (although this test is VERY simple) thought that I'd benchmark > > > > > a simple counter in both Ruby and Perl. > > > > That's even more simplistic than the benchmark programs on the Computer > > > > Language Shootout :-) > > > > > > > > Here's Ruby vs Perl > > > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ruby&sort=fullcpu > > > > > > > > and here are the old Doug Bagley programs > > > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/old/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ruby&sort=fullcpu > > > > > > And, like Mr Kite's test, none of the Alioth shootout benchmarks are > > > worth squat. > > Others find worth where you fail. > > That's only because they're uninformed or blinkered by the false > presentation on the shootout. "false presentation" - another baseless accusation? What specifically is false about the presentation? > -austin > -- > Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com > * Alternate: austin / halostatue.ca