Yeah after some extensive benchmarking it seemed the performance of (Mac)Ruby was never gonna be enough compared to perl. An example of some code that 99% of the apps exist of: % time ./miniruby -e "print 'hello world'" hello world./miniruby -e "print 'hello world'" 0,05s user 0,08s system 86% cpu 0,143 total % time perl -e "print 'hello world'" hello worldperl -e "print 'hello world'" 0,00s user 0,00s system 66% cpu 0,007 total So the right choice was made… :-P Seriously though, I'm sure lots could be done to help ppc users out. But I feel this is exactly one of the reasons why OSS is a good choice. Because people who really need a feature can go fix it themselves. And because they really need it, it will be done the right way. Obviously I can't speak for Laurent, but atm I would suggest simply doing it if you care about it. Patches are always very welcome. Kind regards, Eloy On 5 apr 2009, at 16:51, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
MacPerl? Hey, what happened to macruby? I go on vacation and MacRuby becomes macperl ;)
-Matt
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On Apr 5, 2009, at 0:23, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> wrote:
I realize that Laurent and company have their hands full with simply trying to make JIT (etc) work on Intel hardware. So, I don't expect anyone to make this work on PPC hardware, as well (at least in the short run :-).
However, it occurs to me that it might be possible to "guard" the Intel-specific code such that it doesn't even TRY to run unless an Intel processor is being used. This could allow PPC users to play with new MacPerl releases, albeit in a less optimized manner.
Is this is a possibility?
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