Ruby is getting faster
Since 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto has been talking about making Ruby faster. As our Christmas present for 2007, YARV (Yet Another Ruby Virtual machine) is going to be released as the next core Ruby release 1.9.0. This will make the new version of Ruby about 2 to 3 times faster than Ruby 1.8.6. Below is a CPU and memory usage benchmark across about 10 different algorithms:
Benchmarking Ruby 1.9.0 compared to Ruby 1.8.6
Posted by David Beckwith on Sunday, October 28, 2007