On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:47:48AM +0900, Simon Kröçer wrote:
> Peter Hickman wrote:
> > I will run your Ruby version and the Java version that I write and post
> > the results here. Give us a week or so as I have other things to be doing.
> 
> Hmm, in a week this discussion will be over (ok, it will reappear some time
> soon, but nevertheless) and everybody has swallowed your points.
> 
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mingw32]
> 
> $ time ruby latin.rb 5 > latin.txt
> 
> real    0m4.703s
> user    0m0.015s
> sys     0m0.000s
> 
> (this is a 2.13GHz PentiumM, 1GB RAM, forget the user and sys timings, but
> 'real' is for real, this is WinXP)

Holy crap, that's fast.

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