Quoting Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter / sun.com>:

> Many people believed we'd never be faster than the C implementation,
> and many still think we're slower. Now that I've set that record
> straight, any questions?

1. How long will it be before Alioth has some *reasonable* numbers for  
jRuby? As of yesterday, they still have you significantly slower than  
MRI. So I need to take jRuby out of my slides for RubyConf :) ... I

2. I haven't actually been benchmarking jRuby recently ... too busy  
profiling MRI. :)

3. I'm using the "Pet Store" benchmark for Rails. It's as close to a  
"real Rails benchmark" as anything I can find.

4. How's your performance on a SPARC relative to MRI?
>
> - Charlie