Mark Thomas wrote: > On Jan 28, 2:36pm, Colin Mackenzie <col... / gmail.com> wrote: >> We just installed ruby on a >> Sun T1000, 6 core UltraSPARC T1 cpu, 4G memory , Solaris 10 >> >> Right now Windows is out performing an Ultra SPARC by 25 seconds! Does >> anyone know why this would be the case. I have downloaded ruby and >> compiled it on the hardware, i have tried the binaries from sunfreeware >> and the results are the same. Actually, the results from my compile were >> a second or two worse than the binaries from SUN! > > I wonder what kind of performance you'd get if you used JRuby 1.1.6+ java runs 7 times slower on this RISC platform, just going to drop it. Every thing runs slow -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.