# Ruby high on Computer Language Shootout scores!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-high-on-computer-language-shootout-scores/55556>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 22, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-high-on-computer-language-shootout-scores/55556 "2006-03-22T02:28:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![igouy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ce7236/32.png) [@igouy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/igouy)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-high-on-computer-language-shootout-scores/55556/1 "2006-03-22T02:28:56Z")

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Now that we’re using GZip source code bytes as an indicator of program  
size, Ruby is high up on The Computer Language Shootout scores. No  
doubt Ruby will be at the top once someone contributes those 2 missing  
programs 😉

[http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&calc=Calculate&xfullcpu=0&xmem=0&xloc=1&binarytrees=1&chameneos=1&message=1&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&nbody=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&partialsums=1&pidigits=1&recursive=1&regexdna=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&hello=0&sumcol=1](http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&calc=Calculate&xfullcpu=0&xmem=0&xloc=1&binarytrees=1&chameneos=1&message=1&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&nbody=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&partialsums=1&pidigits=1&recursive=1&regexdna=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&hello=0&sumcol=1)

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**Author:** ![igouy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ce7236/32.png) [@igouy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/igouy)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-high-on-computer-language-shootout-scores/55556/2 "2006-03-22T03:51:34Z")

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Isaac G. wrote:

> Now that we’re using GZip source code bytes as an indicator of program  
> size, Ruby is high up on The Computer Language Shootout scores. No  
> doubt Ruby will be at the top once someone contributes those 2 missing  
> programs 😉
> 
> [http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&calc=Calculate&xfullcpu=0&xmem=0&xloc=1&binarytrees=1&chameneos=1&message=1&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&nbody=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&partialsums=1&pidigits=1&recursive=1&regexdna=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&hello=0&sumcol=1](http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&calc=Calculate&xfullcpu=0&xmem=0&xloc=1&binarytrees=1&chameneos=1&message=1&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&nbody=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&partialsums=1&pidigits=1&recursive=1&regexdna=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&hello=0&sumcol=1)

Almost any language can be at the top if you select/deselect various  
factors.

With each multiplier set = 1, Ruby appears in the middle of the pack in  
the language shootout. Ruby is still a favorite of mine, but we  
shouldn’t ignore reality when comparing it to other languages.

[http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&xfullcpu=1&xmem=1&xloc=1&binarytrees=1&chameneos=1&message=1&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&nbody=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&partialsums=1&pidigits=1&recursive=1&regexdna=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&hello=1&sumcol=1&calc=Calculate](http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&xfullcpu=1&xmem=1&xloc=1&binarytrees=1&chameneos=1&message=1&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&nbody=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&partialsums=1&pidigits=1&recursive=1&regexdna=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&hello=1&sumcol=1&calc=Calculate)

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Rails 1.1-RC1 is available!  
[http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2006/03/22/rails-1-1-release-candidate-1-available#comments](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2006/03/22/rails-1-1-release-candidate-1-available#comments)

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**Author:** ![igouy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ce7236/32.png) [@igouy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/igouy)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-high-on-computer-language-shootout-scores/55556/3 "2006-03-22T05:09:32Z")

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Conductor wrote:

> factors.  
> [http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2006/03/22/rails-1-1-release-candidate-1-available#comments](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2006/03/22/rails-1-1-release-candidate-1-available#comments)
> 
> –  
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).

Reality is that on average the Ruby programs on The Computer Language  
Shootout are smaller than the programs written in the other languages  
(when we use source code GZip bytes as the measure).

I wasn’t about to suggest that the Ruby programs are the fastest  
programs on The Computer Language Shootout 🙂