I know I'm feeding a troll with a title like that, but the results are very strange. On my macbook: $ ruby -v rubinius 2.0.0.rc1 (1.8.7 release yyyy-mm-dd J

I know I'm feeding a troll with a title like that, but the results are very strange. On my macbook: $ ruby -v rubinius 2.0.0.rc1 (1.8.7 release yyyy-mm-dd JI) [x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0] $ time ./runner.sh ruby bogobench.rb Running 'ruby bogobench.rb' 100 times… …done. real 0m0.732s user 0m0.289s sys 0m0.273s Linode with Ubuntu: $ ruby -v ruby 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22 revision 39386) [i686-linux] $ time ./runner.sh ruby bogobench.rb Running 'ruby bogobench.rb' 100 times… …done. real 0m3.701s user 0m2.486s sys 0m1.202s