Ruby Performance

February 26th, 2007 by Pat Eyler

Antonio Cangiano posted a Ruby Implementation Shootout on his blog last week. While it's an interesting piece (and will likely be more interesting over time), it's still very premature.

The various implementations are still don't pass all the tests involved in the shootout (particularily rubinius and Cardinal). In fact, most of them have either not done any optimization work, or are just starting down that road.

Implementation Completeness

Still, YARV shows up quite well in the test as it stands, and JRuby and Ruby.NET both show a lot of promise. It will be interesting to see how the numbers look in 6 months or so.

This doesn't mean that no one is looking at Ruby 1.8.5 speed though. Tomasz Wegrzanowski unveiled a post called Making Ruby Faster, in which he shows some opportunities for speeding up the stock interpreter. Hopefully he (and others on the ruby-core mailing list) will be able to get some improvements into 1.8.6.

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On April 17th, 2008 concon says:

Thanks for the suggestion…

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On October 1st, 2007 Asiatique (not verified) says:

Most of them have either not done any optimization work, or are just starting down that road.

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On October 1st, 2007 oyun (not verified) says:

thanks you

I'd like to see a faster

On September 18th, 2007 new thumbs daily (not verified) says:

I'd like to see a faster ruby too, a very good article.

Ruby is getting better and better

On July 9th, 2007 SoftArea51 (not verified) says:

Ruby's performance was always a problem comparing to other more popular scripting languages. Thanks to its features, various platforms available and the increasing community Ruby will manage to overtake PHP or Perl very soon. As graph above shows, several implementations came close in benchmarks and this for sure will lead to a Ruby standardization very soon.

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Ruby Performance

On June 9th, 2007 Tobias Schwarz (not verified) says:

I think "Making Ruby Faster" will be THE challenge. I saw many sites switching from php to ruby (e.g. plazes.com). Development seems to be much faster now, but many applications are slower and scaling with faster hardware isn't always the best idea...

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On September 6th, 2007 free games online (not verified) says:

I look forward to a better & faster Ruby...

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