[MacRuby-devel] Another meaningless benchmark

Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. prabhaka at apple.com
Thu Oct 29 15:49:12 PDT 2009


Hi Conrad,

They are seconds of execution (clock) time, I believe.  Mostly arbitrary, since they're run on a different machine than the original.

-enp

On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Conrad Taylor wrote:

> 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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