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Comparison of Nine Ruby Implementations 75

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @11:52AM from the shades-of-corundum dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Zen and the Art of Programming published a new version of The Great Ruby Shootout, which was aimed at testing the performances of multiple Ruby implementations. On the benchmark table this time around are Ruby 1.8 (on GNU/Linux and Windows), Ruby 1.9 (aka Yarv), Ruby Enterprise Edition (aka REE), JRuby 1.1.6RC1, Rubinius, MagLev, MacRuby 0.3 and IronRuby. The results of this comprehensive comparison show that for this set of benchmarks, Ruby 1.9.1 is almost 5 times faster than the notoriously slow Ruby 1.8. Is Ruby finally going to be acceptably fast?"

Submission + - MSN Messenger banner ads distributing malware

Submitted by on Sunday February 18, 2007 @07:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: The malware commonly known as Winfixer aka Errorsafe is being distributed via MSN Messenger banner advertisements. This has been reported to secure@microsoft.com and they and the MSN ads team are investigating. Report here: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2007/ 02/18/591493.aspx

Submission + - Blender 2.43 released - with Google SOC tools

Submitted by

LetterRip

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @07:08PM

LetterRip writes: "Blender 2.43 the free 3d animation suite has been released. There are a number of amazing new features including sculpting (which was supported by Googles Summer of Code) — you can now sculpt huge poly counts (6.5 million!) on Linux; fast 3D texture painting and numerous animation tool improvements."

Submission + - Lakes found under Antarctic ice using space lasers

Submitted by

Reverse Gear

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:53PM

Reverse Gear writes: "There is a new study circling the media about these newly found big lakes found underneath the antarctic ice sheets that apparently empty and fills back up quite fast (study has been working in 3 years and has detected massive movements), from the article:

The scientists allay fears that global warming has created these pockets of water. They say these lakes lie some 2,300 feet below compressed snow and ice, too deep for environmental temperature to reach. However, it is necessary to understand what causes the phenomenon as it can facilitate an understanding of the impact of climate change on the ice sheet in Antarctica
NASA also has some information on the technique used to detect these lakes"

Submission + - RIAA hires DJ's, then sends in the SWAT team

Submitted by

cancan

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:37PM

cancan writes: "The NY times is carrying an article about how the RIAA is hiring hip hop artists to make mix tapes, and then helping the police raid their studios. In the case of DJ Drama and DJ Don Cannon (myspace warning), they were raided by SWAT teams with their guns drawn. The local police chief said later that they were "prepared for the worst." Men in RIAA jackets helped cart away "evidence"."

Submission + - World's largest tropical glacier is vanishing.

Submitted by Socguy on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:20PM

Socguy writes: "Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson and a team of scientists said they have found evidence the Qori Kalis glacier of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes could lose half its mass in 12 months and could be gone five years from now."
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/16/scie nce-glacier.html

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