Thank you!
That [official] version was built with VC6, which compared to VC8 perform worse:
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32] (official build)
time elapsed: 13.516 sec.
time elapsed: 13.485 sec.
time elapsed: 13.485 sec.
time elapsed: 13.5 sec.
time elapsed: 13.485 sec.
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32_80] VC 8.0
time elapsed: 10.516 sec.
time elapsed: 10.531 sec.
time elapsed: 10.516 sec.
time elapsed: 10.531 sec.
time elapsed: 10.515 sec.
apparently
As the summary of the tests indicates, all were performed under the same
machine.
It would be nice to see the comparison run on linux (same machine), too.
To make this simple: it's true, current distribution/build of ruby
perform worse than linux counterparts.
I just can say 'we' are working hard to get a better build of Ruby for
Windows.
Thanks for your work on that. I know some of us use win32 and suffer
-Roger