------ art_16049_4042578.1161766163026 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/25/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb / cesmail.net> wrote: > > > Native Windows One-Click Ruby Installer: > > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32] > > Matrix of dimension 256 times its inverse dentity? true > > 137.658000 0.060000 137.718000 (137.719000) > > > > CygWin Ruby: > > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-cygwin] > > Matrix of dimension 256 times its inverse dentity? true > > 137.598000 0.110000 137.708000 (137.768000) > > > > Gentoo Linux Ruby > > Compiled from source with GCC 4.1.1 -O2 -march ¨Âìïîøð > -fomit-frame-pointer > > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-linux] > > Matrix of dimension 256 times its inverse dentity? true > > 107.380000 0.010000 107.390000 (107.425632) > > So, it appears that on this benchmark, the One-Click and CygWin > interpreters are equal!! But GCC 4.1.1 beat them both. > > Back to RAMEAU. :) > > These are some really interesting results! I guess the benchmark you use can make a big difference. The one I used had heavy IO, which might be part of it. Although you would expect the cygwin dll to impart some overhead there. -- Robert W. Oliver II President, OCS Solutions, Inc. - Web Hosting and Development http://www.ocssolutions.com/ Toll-Free Phone - 1-800-672-8415 OCS Ruby Forums - http://www.rubyforums.com/ My Blog - http://www.rwoliver.com/ ------ art_16049_4042578.1161766163026--