Ruby is faster than Python, PHP, and Perl

Hi, I'm Tony Arcieri. You may remember me from such software projects as Celluloid, Reia, and Cool.io... There's a pervasive myth that Ruby is slow, and moreover, that it's the slowest language in popular use. Everyone knows Ruby is slow. Right? Who would possibly disagree that Ruby is slow? Here's an example IRC discussion on freenode's #postgres which happened just yesterday: 16:57 sobel: i can'

[tofu-kun]

ほうほう

[yayugu]

RubyがPtythonとかPerlとかPHPよりも早くなったって。このベンチマークサイトにRubyコードの高速化パッチ投げたことあるからいくらかは貢献できてるかも

[perlcodesample]

標準的なベンチはたぶんこの結果だけれど、テキスト処理は断然PerlのほうがRubyより速いです。

[hiroshi_revolution]

Unlimited Novelty: Ruby is faster than Python, PHP, and Perl