[MacRuby-devel] Another meaningless benchmark

[Conrad Taylor]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <
prabhaka at apple.com> wrote:

> But what the heck, they're fun. :-)
>
> http://www.timestretch.com/FractalBenchmark.html
>
> prabhaka$ ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0]
> Ruby Elapsed 4.885692
>
> prabhaka$ macruby --version
> MacRuby version 0.5 (ruby 1.9.0) [universal-darwin10.0, x86_64]
> Ruby Elapsed 0.251436
>
> Roughly 20x faster!  That would make us comparable to Lua for this
> benchmark -- about 30x slower than C.
>
> -- Ernie P.
>
>
Ernie, what are the units of measure here?

-Conrad


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