Hi All,
It’s sad to see ruby at the bottom of this list:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all
Any thoughts on this?
Are there slimmer highly optimized versions that are specifically
targeted towards certain platforms?
Thanks.
On Tue, 8 May 2007, conker wrote:
Hi All,
It’s sad to see ruby at the bottom of this list:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all
Any thoughts on this?
Are there slimmer highly optimized versions that are specifically
targeted towards certain platforms?
This has been beat to death in the past. Check out the archives.
In summary – Sure, in general, Ruby is slower than some other popular
interpreted languages. But it’s hardly debilitatingly slow. I’ve got
an
asynchronous logger for ruby that will, even on modest hardware do
40-50k
messages per second, for example. That’s pretty fast. I’ve got a ruby
web devel framework that buries (as well as I can test, since I don’t
see source for the tests anyway) the django numbers seen on this
benchmark:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Framework+Performance
Ruby may not benchmark so fast as some other languages, but so what? It
doesn’t stop me nor thousands of other people from using it
successfully.
Kirk H.
On May 7, 3:16 pm, [email protected] wrote:
targeted towards certain platforms?
Ruby may not benchmark so fast as some other languages, but so what? It
doesn’t stop me nor thousands of other people from using it successfully.Kirk H.
I still think that this is due to the fact that ruby is a very young
language by comparison. Not to mention, most of the development on
the language has been to add functionality. Since more and more
people are hopping on the ruby bandwagon, it is only a matter of time
till the bottlenecks in the language are overcame.
Then again, if performance is the key to an application, then one
shouldn’t be using a scripting/interpretive language at all.
…
All that said, I’m still a perl fanboy 
Considering that I often choose to spawn children from my programs, i
would definately want to consider startup/shutdown time or ‘cpu time’
into the benchmark, as it would have a direct affect on 90% of
production environments especially websites.
On May 7, 1:55 pm, conker [email protected] wrote:
Hi All,
It’s sad to see ruby at the bottom of this list:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all〈=all
Any thoughts on this?
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all
On May 7, 2:55 pm, conker [email protected] wrote:
It’s sad to see ruby at the bottom of this list:
Any thoughts on this?
Good question. This will bug the heck out of the Rubyists… But…
While Ruby looks like it is superior, sorry, IS superior to all
languages, it doesn’t have the support of any major business or
scientific community that would fund and help create a complete
programming language solution that “just works” out of the box.
Ruby is fun to play with, but too many times Ruby packages are not
updated, or only get partially implimented or the implimentator gets
bored and abandons the entire code mess er. project when he finally
get’s a girl friend.
When I need demonstrated faster processing speed, a clean syntax with
OOP features without resorting to obtuse “Perl-isms”, usable and
CURRENT documentation, and a community of programmers that know how
to program in C/C++ so they CAN help to IMPROVE the language instead
of mindlessly beating on newbies to just STFU and live with it until
Matz gets around in one of his pending future lives to fix Ruby, I
use Python.
– Jason.
In message [email protected], Jason
writes:
When I need demonstrated faster processing speed, a clean syntax with
OOP features without resorting to obtuse “Perl-isms”, usable and
CURRENT documentation, and a community of programmers that know how
to program in C/C++ so they CAN help to IMPROVE the language instead
of mindlessly beating on newbies to just STFU and live with it until
Matz gets around in one of his pending future lives to fix Ruby, I
use Python.
I just didn’t find Python as appealing. YMMV.
That said, I’m a decent C programmer, and I’d probably be able to help
people clean up C code related to Ruby. I can program in C. I even
do it sometimes!
-s
Please do not top post. Thank you!
On 08.05.2007 19:28, knohr wrote:
Considering that I often choose to spawn children from my programs, i
would definately want to consider startup/shutdown time or ‘cpu time’
into the benchmark, as it would have a direct affect on 90% of
production environments especially websites.
Hm… I am not sure. Fast web site frameworks usually do not require
spawning processes all the time because they have modules loaded into
the webserver, use FastCGI or similar. The reason is of course even if
the programming environment’s startup overhead is low there is still the
OS imposed overhead of creating processes. And that cannot be reduced
easily.
Kind regards
robert
On May 9, 2:00 am, Robert K. [email protected] wrote:
spawning processes all the time because they have modules loaded into
the webserver, use FastCGI or similar. The reason is of course even if
the programming environment’s startup overhead is low there is still the
OS imposed overhead of creating processes. And that cannot be reduced
easily.Kind regards
robert
Sorry about that, I meant environments that I work on. i’m a QA
automation framework designer, and more oft then not, i use cgi
interfaces to drive my automation.
On May 8, 6:09 pm, Jason [email protected] wrote:
I use Python.
Hey, J. I heard that attempting to program in
Python is like trying to scratch your ass while
wearing a straitjacket. Is that true? If it is, then
why do you do it? Do you enjoy that sort of thing?
Let’s give you something really easy to try.
Well, o.k., it would be really easy for languages
that are designed to enable the programmer,
not to hobble him. So I guess it won’t be so
easy in Python.
Let’s say we’re doing some intense calculations
and we want to show a simple progress indicator:
40.times {
print “.”
time_consuming_routine
}
puts “\nFinished.”
And the output is
…
Finished.
Simple. (Note that there are no spaces between
the periods.) Doing it in awk is also straightforward.
for (i=0; i<40; i++)
{ printf “.”
time_consuming_routine()
}
print “\nFinished.”
Can you figure out how to do this trivial task
in Python?
conker wrote:
Hi All,
It’s sad to see ruby at the bottom of this list:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all
Any thoughts on this?
I find no value to this list. First, I remember when the same kinds of
people tried to say that Native C++ code ran faster than Delphi, but
every test showed Delphi faster. I even remember when I was doing dBASE
for windows, that there was an arrSort() (array sort) method that
crashed when you opened too many items through it. One of the Borland
engineers wrote a sorting algorithm which not only ran without crashing
but was 150+ times faster than the native C++ code used. DBASE is an
interpreted language also.
Just having an interpreted language is not enough to say that it will be
slow. This site does not say just what the test is or how it is coded
for each language. There are ways to code that will change the speed of
execution dramatically.
There was another thread about running something that requires 10 msec
time slicing that ruby was able to do reliably.
10 millisecond delay/callback - Ruby - Ruby-Forum This shows that things can
be run fairly fast. One poster said that windows has a 15 msec time
slice. For Ruby to work at 10 msecs is fast.
Also, the bottom line is not how many times you can run
1000000.times
p (123.456 / 987.654).to_s
in a second.
If it is fast enough, and it usually is, then there are other
considerations that are far more important. Can you get it running
reliably in the time allotted? It is easily maintained? Is it
extensible and otherwise easily modified and updated? There is more to
the value of a language than running a single floating point calculation
a bazillion times. As long as it works fast enough to keep users from
getting annoyed, it is fast enough.
To put things like that in a chart is for people that do not think
further than just the pretty pictures at what lies behind. The people
that support and want Ruby have far more to consider and want far more
from their programming language than that.
Fwiw & imho
On May 9, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Alex Y. wrote:
Finished.
Can you figure out how to do this trivial task
in Python?
Not hard. Trivial, in fact.for i in range(0,40):
You don’t actually need the “0,” part there. “for i in range(40):”
would be more typical.
sys.stdout.write(’.’)
time_consuming_routine()sys.stdout.write("\nFinished.")
Note that due to buffering of standard output, both snippets may not
actually produce any output until the final puts/print. In the Ruby
script, add “$stdout.flush” after the print. In Python, add
“sys.stdout.flush()” after the sys.stdout.write.
-Mark
William J. wrote:
> ........................................ > Finished. > Can you figure out how to do this trivial task > in Python? Not hard. Trivial, in fact.On May 8, 6:09 pm, Jason [email protected] wrote:
I use Python.
for i in range(0,40):
sys.stdout.write(‘.’)
time_consuming_routine()
sys.stdout.write(“\nFinished.”)
Mark Day wrote:
And the output is
would be more typical.sys.stdout.write(’.’)
time_consuming_routine()sys.stdout.write("\nFinished.")
Note that due to buffering of standard output, both snippets may not
actually produce any output until the final puts/print. In the Ruby
script, add “$stdout.flush” after the print. In Python, add
“sys.stdout.flush()” after the sys.stdout.write.
I realised that - it wasn’t part of the spec, though 
On May 10, 9:34 am, Jason [email protected] wrote:
William J. wrote:
Search Google for: “Ruby programming jobs”
(Don’t forget the double quotes.)Then search for: “Python programming jobs”
Then we will see who is scratching his ass
Just, and also try: “Cobol programming jobs”
and you’ll guess the future (
– Maurice
William J. wrote:
On May 8, 6:09 pm, Jason [email protected] wrote:
I use Python.
Hey, J. I heard that attempting to program in
Python is like trying to scratch your ass while
wearing a straitjacket. Is that true? If it is, then
why do you do it? Do you enjoy that sort of thing?
Please, let’s try and be civil.
Search Google for: “Ruby programming jobs”
(Don’t forget the double quotes.)
Then search for: “Python programming jobs”
Then we will see who is scratching his ass
– Jason
“Ruby programming jobs” 5 results
“Python programming jobs” 10 results
“Cobol programming jobs” 59,700 results
“Perl programming jobs” 249,000 results
diam wrote:
Just, and also try: “Cobol programming jobs”
and you’ll guess the future (
– Maurice
I think you meant the “new” Cobol ie “PHP Programming”… Now that is
a scary number…
More scary is the future Global Warming from the excessive power
generation caused by PHP (and Rails) burning all those extra unneeded
CPU processor cycles 
But to “guess the true future”, Python is behind the “Sugar” of the
OLPC project…
OLPC: One Laptop Per Child
http://www.laptop.org/
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Python_Environment
I would ask any Ruby(cult)ists to save the flames and instead donate
their energies to this fine project to better the world’s children…
– Jason
On 9 May 2007, at 00:10, Jason wrote:
languages, it doesn’t have the support of any major business or
scientific community that would fund and help create a complete
programming language solution that “just works” out of the box.
You’ve obviously not been paying attention…
Microsoft are releasing their own Ruby implementation (IronRuby) as
part of the Silverlight environment. Likewise Sun liked JRuby enough
to hire Charles O Nutter, so that’s two major businesses that are
already putting their money into Ruby. How much money waits to be
seen, but neither company is known for doing things by halves.
Assuming an appropriate add-on for Visual Studio, IronRuby will give
90%+ of PC users an out-of-the-box development solution. Likewise
there’s an Eclipse plug-in for Java developers and on the Mac it’s a
relatively painless process to install the RubyCocoa and RubyAEOSA
packages, which add support for Ruby to XCode (although it’d be nice
if Apple rolled support in themselves, considering their inclusion of
Rails in Leopard).
Ellie
raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason
On 10 May 2007, at 20:00, Jason wrote:
But to “guess the true future”, Python is behind the “Sugar” of the
OLPC project…OLPC: One Laptop Per Child
http://www.laptop.org/
OLPC Python Environment - OLPCI would ask any Ruby(cult)ists to save the flames and instead donate
their energies to this fine project to better the world’s children…
No flame intended, but is the Python world ready for the potential
influx of 100 million child/teenage programmers doing exactly the
same things as those of us who learned our bad habits on BASIC in the
1980s?
Ellie
raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason
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