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10-30% faster is “massive”? Ruby standard is 5-30 times slower than all other popular language implementations, I'd expect at least a 100% increase to be consid

10-30% faster is “massive”? Ruby standard is 5-30 times slower than all other popular language implementations, I'd expect at least a 100% increase to be considered “massive.” I'd call this just “a speed boost.” Anyway, keep it up.

donw 15y ago
A quick look at the programming language shootout (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/) puts Ruby in roughly the same performance league as Python and Perl, and you'd be hard-put to argue that these aren't popular languages.
pdhborges 15y ago
You must have missed this part: "Compared to JRuby on Java 6, JRuby on Java 7 without invokedynamic is around 25% faster, and JRuby with invokedynamic is nearly 3 times faster."
lobo_tuerto 15y ago
Three times faster == 300% speed increase. In your terms that would mean a _really_ massive upgrade.
- thm76 15y ago
  No, it's a 200% speed increase. If the speed before was 1 unit, it's now 3 units. That's 200% more.
  - lobo_tuerto 15y ago
    So if I say it's one time faster, isn't it a 100% increase?