Ruby Baby wrote:
> But I just realized I've never seen any Ruby benchmarks, comparing
> it to other languages under heavy load or speed.
> 
> Anyone seen some?

Vaguely related -- could someone confirm that the following suggestions 
are still valid for Ruby 1.8+ (the test circa Ruby 1.6.6)

http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/lang/ruby/
(See the bottom of the url for the few performance tips.)

Anyone have additional tips to add?

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