Submission + - Ruby 1.9 to gain huge performance boosts (smyck.de)
hukl writes: "Everyone knows that Ruby is a neat language but it is also very slow compared to almost every other language. This is about to change dramatically. Half a year ago the ruby developers merged YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM) into the Ruby 1.9 source. YARV is a new bytecode interpreter which boosts the execution time of Ruby programs. It is 2-10 times faster than the Ruby 1.8 interpreter. But it also beats languages like Perl and Python.
A couple of months ago a friend of mine ran a couple of micro benchmarks against every language he came across. The result was always the same — Ruby was the slowest by far. Addition, multiplication, function calls — Ruby lost in all of these disciplines. Now with the current 1.9 version I ran these tests again and it turned out that Ruby was faster than Perl and Python, which were far ahead by the time my friend benchmarked those languages.
Ruby 1.9 is supposed to be released on christmas 2007. This is good news for all those Ruby people — and especially the Rails community."
A couple of months ago a friend of mine ran a couple of micro benchmarks against every language he came across. The result was always the same — Ruby was the slowest by far. Addition, multiplication, function calls — Ruby lost in all of these disciplines. Now with the current 1.9 version I ran these tests again and it turned out that Ruby was faster than Perl and Python, which were far ahead by the time my friend benchmarked those languages.
Ruby 1.9 is supposed to be released on christmas 2007. This is good news for all those Ruby people — and especially the Rails community."