There's a lot of Ruby developers on HN and many of them are interested to know how it can scale. Benchmarking experiments of this nature are actually remarkabl

There's a lot of Ruby developers on HN and many of them are interested to know how it can scale. Benchmarking experiments of this nature are actually remarkable because they are so rarely done. Most scaling and performance principles still arise from conjecture. It's not trivial to set up a test like this. Also, _this_ is the place to start in preparation for a real world test. The next iteration, maybe a more realistic test, is only a fork away.