Alexis Reigel wrote:
> >
> > More ignorance.  Java has a JIT compiler which produces
> > machine code.
> >
>
> Why are you being so mean? I wasn't aware of that.
> I was just wondering why my results were so significantly different. All
> I was asking was if someone had some explanations and comments on why
> that is like that. I got some nice and reasonable answers, but I got
> some unkind answers too... I didn't ask for bitter and unconstructive
> comments. Did I somehow offend your honor? I did not say that ruby is
> crap compared to c++ or java. I find ruby is an absolute fantastic
> language. I was just surprised about my results.

If you have the curiousity there are all kinds of results to wonder
about, for example Ruby compared to a C interpreter ;-)
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ruby&lang2=ch