Hi all,
I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is
that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special
cases?
The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl 
SteveT
Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
slitt@troubleshooters.com
Hi all,
I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is
that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special
cases?
I'm sure you could find special cases to favor either, but in general I would expect just the opposite. Python's got quite a few clever optimizations (as I understand it), and Ruby is known to have a few speed issues.
The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl
Definitely, yes. In my experience, Perl is quite a bit zippier for many operations.
There's a reason we're all excited about YARV... 
James Edward Gray II
On Dec 23, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Someone posted this the other day.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-October/305692.html
On Dec 23, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is
that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special
cases?The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl
SteveT
Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
slitt@troubleshooters.com
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special cases?
No. Generally speaking, Python is faster than Ruby.
The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl
True.
If you encounter performance issues, the profiler is your friend! 
The bottle-neck is often the programmer, not the interpreter 
Furthermore, Ruby will be significantly faster with YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM) YARV: Yet Another Ruby VM
Cheers,
--
Antonio Cangiano
My Ruby blog: http://www.antoniocangiano.com
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is
that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special
cases?The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl
SteveT
Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
slitt@troubleshooters.com
Antonio Cangiano <rubydevelopment@gmail.com> writes:
Furthermore, Ruby will be significantly faster with YARV (Yet Another
Ruby VM) http://www.atdot.net/yarv/
Current version (0.3.3) of YARV shows already a big boost on execution
speed.
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Eric Jacoboni, ne il y a 1438812919 secondes
Eric Jacoboni wrote:
Antonio Cangiano <rubydevelopment@gmail.com> writes:
Furthermore, Ruby will be significantly faster with YARV (Yet Another
Ruby VM) YARV: Yet Another Ruby VMCurrent version (0.3.3) of YARV shows already a big boost on execution
speed.
Definetely, Eric. I used the future tense "will be" to indicate the time when Ruby implementation will be based on YARV instead of the current interpreter.
Cheers,
--
Antonio Cangiano
My Ruby blog: http://www.antoniocangiano.com
Eric Jacoboni <jaco@neottia.net> writes:
Antonio Cangiano <rubydevelopment@gmail.com> writes:
Furthermore, Ruby will be significantly faster with YARV (Yet Another
Ruby VM) YARV: Yet Another Ruby VMCurrent version (0.3.3) of YARV shows already a big boost on execution
speed.
If it can run your code, that is...
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