The best benchmark is your own application. Synthetic benchmarks are good at one thing: giving synthetic perf comparisons. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Carter Cheng <cartercheng / gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have recently become interested in Ruby and I was curious what the > correct approach was in measuring the performance of the various VM > against one another. I.e. YARV, JRuby, MRI etc. What kind of > applications or benchmarks are good for this purpose. > > Thanks in advance, > > Carter. > >