>> Here's why << And when we follow the link to Peter Cooper's comment... "I decided to give it a go with MacRuby in its regular interpreted mode (which perfo

>> Here's why << And when we follow the link to Peter Cooper's comment... "I decided to give it a go with MacRuby in its regular interpreted mode (which performed well against 1.9.1 in the fib test) and binary-trees gobbled up 3GB of RAM just in the first minute so I cancelled.. pidigits came in at 41.4 seconds on MacRuby (nightly) versus 30.1 seconds for 1.9.1. On a reduced version of the fannkuck benchmark (using an input of 10 - otherwise it takes a lonnng time to run), MacRuby was 26.038 seconds, 1.9.1 was 24.277 seconds. So it seems MacRuby being faster than 1.9.1 is hardly a wash at this point, though it shows great potential to eventually beat the 1.9 branch. "