# Unbiased benchmark

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unbiased-benchmark/162694>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 12, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unbiased-benchmark/162694 "2009-03-12T21:07:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sam\_Ettessoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sam\_Ettessoc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sam_Ettessoc)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unbiased-benchmark/162694/1 "2009-03-12T21:07:53Z")

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Dear sir,

I would like to share a benchmark I did. The computer used was a  
2160MHz Intel Core Duo w/ 2000MB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM running MAC OS  
10.5.6 and a lots of software running (a typical developer  
workstation).

Python benchmark:  
HAMBURGUESA:benchmark sam$ echo 1+1 \> bench.py  
HAMBURGUESA:benchmark sam$ time python bench.py  
real 0m0.064s  
user 0m0.049s  
sys 0m0.013s

Ruby benchmark:  
HAMBURGUESA:benchmark sam$ echo 1+1 \> bench.rb  
HAMBURGUESA:benchmark sam$ time ruby bench.rb  
real 0m0.006s  
user 0m0.003s  
sys 0m0.003s

Can you believe it? Ruby is 10 times faster than Python.

On a side note, when I subscribed to the Python mailing list, it took  
less than 200ms before I got the confirmation email. For the Ruby  
mailing list, it took over 9000ms! Which is 4500% less performant!

Sam Ettessoc  
p.s. I have no affiliation with ruby or python devloppement team.