On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:prabhaka@apple.com">prabhaka@apple.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
But what the heck, they&#39;re fun. :-)<br>
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<a href="http://www.timestretch.com/FractalBenchmark.html" target="_blank">http://www.timestretch.com/FractalBenchmark.html</a><br>
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prabhaka$ ruby --version<br>
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0]<br>
Ruby Elapsed 4.885692<br>
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prabhaka$ macruby --version<br>
MacRuby version 0.5 (ruby 1.9.0) [universal-darwin10.0, x86_64]<br>
Ruby Elapsed 0.251436<br>
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Roughly 20x faster!  That would make us comparable to Lua for this benchmark -- about 30x slower than C.<br>
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-- Ernie P.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ernie, what are the units of measure here?</div><div><br></div><div>-Conrad</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

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