Aqil Azmi wrote: [ruby slower than perl?] i noticed that windows ruby is by far slower than linux one. i had a speech in class about Gaussian algorithm which i implemented in ruby, and then i implemented Cramer's rule, too, and wanted to show my class the speed difference. but my benchmark didnt want to finish at school on the windows version. even when i reduced the data to the square root, it ran much longer than at home. regards, nick -- Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #18: Q: Are you married? A: No, I'm divorced. Q: And what did your husband do before you divorced him? A: A lot of things I didn't know about.