Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster 191
An anonymous reader writes "Zen and the Art of Programming published an article about MacRuby's new experimental 0.5 branch (project blog entry here). According to the included benchmarks, Apple's version of Ruby could already, at this early stage of its development, be about three times as fast as the fastest Ruby implementation available elsewhere."
That's because it's spiked with assembly (Score:5, Funny)
I heard it made a guy in Michigan's head explode! That's why I stay away from the experimental stuff, man.
Painted red (Score:3, Funny)
How they did it (Score:5, Funny)
Sleep(30); /* used to be 90 */
Re:Why MacRuby Matters? (Score:5, Funny)
Whenever I read posts like these I start to wonder if I accidentally walked into a Starbucks.
This sounds great! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why MacRuby Matters? (Score:4, Funny)
I suspect that someday in a future version of the Mac OS, Ruby will be a first-class language for application development alongside or perhaps replacing Objective-C.
Wouldn't that require Ruby being a first-class development language in the first place? ;)
Yeah, yeah, go on and mod me troll, I can handle it.
Re:Why MacRuby Matters? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, yeah, go on and mod me troll, I can handle it.
Alright then!
Wait a minute...
Shit.
Re:Why MacRuby Matters? (Score:2, Funny)
This is slashdot. Benchmarks are all that matters.
Re:true, but seems unnecessary (Score:5, Funny)
PS: Do you want me to punch you in face? You see, C++ is one of my favorite languages :)
I don't like the feeling of being punched in the face, which is one of the big reasons I don't code in C++ or Java. But if that's your thing, you should keep at it! :)
Re:Why MacRuby Matters? (Score:4, Funny)