On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:15:02 -0500, Jay Levitt <jay+news / jay.fm>
wrote:

>FWIW, in my experience, Ruby speed issues on Windows are pretty much always
>file I/O problems.  Even when it's working, and anti-virus is disabled,
>it's much slower than Mac or Linux, but when it's not working, hoo boy.

Well, this is in the range of hoo boy, 15x slower than Chet's laptop,
which is otherwise comparable or possibly slower.
Very confusing ...

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com