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

> znmeb / cesmail.net wrote:
>> 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
>
> The current published Alioth numbers are based on JRuby 1.0(ish), which
> was generally 2-3x slower than MRI. I'm hoping the numbers will be
> updated soon after the 1.1 releases...but it probably won't happen
> until 1.1 final comes out in December. If someone else wants to re-run
> them for us, it would make us very happy :)

I can't help you with that, but if you'll give me the numbers you do  
have (time in seconds for each benchmark on the latest jRuby, MRI and  
KRI on a common platform) I'll run the boxplots off and post them to  
the list.