[MacRuby-devel] a modest request

[Eloy Duran]

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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 5, 2009, at 0:23, Rich Morin <rdm at 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?
>>
>> -r
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