"hemant" <gethemant / gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Nov 28, 2007 3:55 PM, Antonio Cangiano <acangiano / gmail.com> wrote:
>> I ran a micro-benchmark with Ruby 1.8.6, Ruby 1.9 and Python 2.5.1,
>> and was stunned by Ruby 1.9's improvements. Incidentally for my
>> particular test (which is a silly one...), Ruby was more than twice as
>> fast as Python!
>>
>> http://antoniocangiano.com/2007/11/28/holy-shmoly-ruby-19-smokes-python-away/
>>
>> We can't say for sure yet, but chances are that Ruby 1.9 is going to
>> be faster than CPython in most situations, which would be a great
>> accomplishment and step forward for the Ruby community. It's not a
>> competition, but a speed boost of this caliber is super welcomed. :-)
>>
>
>
> As pointed numerous times on this list, this is perhaps because of
> special changes that has went into
> Ruby 1.9 for fixed point mathematics ( or integer math as charles tells 
> us )
>
> However, other benchmarks on programming shootout website still show
> even Ruby1.9 slower than Python.....
>
> But anyway..we never were mad about performance right?

    Indeed, as Python moves towards iterators over actual lists, it will 
only get faster...