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• Eh? (Score:2)

  by djberg96 (2603)

  I have no idea what you've been smoking, because there's no way you should be getting that kind of discrepency. Either you're using a very old version of ruby, your interpreter is broken, or you've been sniffing glue again.

  For my results, I used ruby 1.6.7 and perl 5.8.0 on Mandrake 9. I took the sample text you gave in your journal entry and copied it over and over until I ended up with a 2.4 MB file. I used "bzip-0.21" as the target. Hopefully, I didn't screw up the logic.

  I've provided the exact b
  • Re:Eh? (Score:2)

    by djberg96 (2603) on 2003.01.15 8:56 (#16025) Journal

    Oops - those were the benchmarks against the 48k file. Here are the benchmarks against the 2.4mb file:

    Ruby:

    djberge>/usr/local/bin/ruby ruby_bench.rb
          user     system      total        real
    original:270.560000   2.740000 273.300000 (273.258903)
    optimized:134.710000   1.890000 136.600000 (136.578120)

    Perl:

    djberge>perl perl_bench.pl
    Benchmark: timing 1 iterations of original...
      original: 129 wallclock secs (127.60 usr +  1.07 sys = 128.67 CPU) @  0.01/s (n=1)

    So, at the end of the day Perl is still slightly faster - about what I expected.

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