The first time I ran: time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'" hello world real 0m0.221s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.006s subsequent times: time ruby -

The first time I ran: time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'" hello world real 0m0.221s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.006s subsequent times: time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'" hello world real 0m0.008s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.003s So, I guess he ran ruby first followed by topaz and ended up with those results