Ruby faster than Python???

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is
that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special
cases?

The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl

SteveT

Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
(e-mail address removed)

 

[James Edward Gray II]

Hi all,

I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is
that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special
cases?

I'm sure you could find special cases to favor either, but in general
I would expect just the opposite. Python's got quite a few clever
optimizations (as I understand it), and Ruby is known to have a few
speed issues.

The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl

Definitely, yes. In my experience, Perl is quite a bit zippier for
many operations.

There's a reason we're all excited about YARV...

James Edward Gray II

 

[J. Ryan Sobol]

Hi all,

I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is
that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special
cases?

The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl

SteveT

Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
(e-mail address removed)

Someone posted this the other day.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-October/305692.html

 

[Eric Jacoboni]

Furthermore, Ruby will be significantly faster with YARV (Yet Another
Ruby VM) http://www.atdot.net/yarv/

Current version (0.3.3) of YARV shows already a big boost on execution
speed.

 

[Isaac Gouy]

Hi all,

I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is
that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special
cases?

The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl

SteveT

Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
(e-mail address removed)

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?BenchMarks