I compare with GNU Smalltalk since the results should be more or less
on par (both stack VMs, etc.):
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gst&lang2=ruby
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gst&lang2=yarv
My congratulations to the Ruby 1.9.0 team!