Michael T. Richter wrote: > Can I ask why *ANYBODY* took a message by someone calling themselves > "Ruby Maniac" and using expressions like "cute language" as anything but > a troll? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? > > Don't dignify these kinds of things with responses, peeps. > Well ... yes ... I suppose if I hadn't just run the benchmarks and posted the results, I wouldn't have responded. But I am so thrilled to see that 5X number for "YARV". Is there anyone here who thinks they can get a 5X boost for Python 2.5? Perl 5.8.8? PHP 5?