Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-13 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Lie Ryan wrote: But ruby don't bite... Neither does a python, it is a constrictor, meaning it has a firm grip on the modules imported :-) -- mph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Lie Ryan
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: Philip Semanchuk wrote: On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: Even more amazingly, it takes approximately 30% less time to say 'ruby' than to say 'python'!!! But "python" scores 55% more points than "ruby" in Scrabble, so that's understandable. It

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Hyunchul Kim
In the system that I tested, results were different. * System was CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor, Frequency 2600MHz, L2 cache 512KB Memory 3164MB OS: Ubuntu 8.10 When I tried this benchmark for the first time, i...@pc:~$ time python bench.py real0m0.010s user

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Philip Semanchuk wrote: On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: Even more amazingly, it takes approximately 30% less time to say 'ruby' than to say 'python'!!! But "python" scores 55% more points than "ruby" in Scrabble, so that's understandable. It also explains why both la

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread John Machin
On Mar 13, 7:58 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > Daniel Fetchinson writes: > > Even more amazingly, it takes approximately 30% less time to say > > 'ruby' than to say 'python'!!! > > That is not a fair comparison.  Python has two more letters than > Ruby, so you are accomplis

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-12, Aahz wrote: > In article , > Grant Edwards wrote: >>On 2009-03-12, Sam Ettessoc wrote: >>> >>> Dear sir, >> >>[Rather odd "benchmark" troll elided.] > > Looks more like humor than a troll... Upon re-reading the post, I think you're right. -- Grant Edwards gra

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Daniel Fetchinson writes: > Even more amazingly, it takes approximately 30% less time to say > 'ruby' than to say 'python'!!! That is not a fair comparison. Python has two more letters than Ruby, so you are accomplishing more when you say it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Aahz
In article , Grant Edwards wrote: >On 2009-03-12, Sam Ettessoc wrote: >> >> Dear sir, > >[Rather odd "benchmark" troll elided.] Looks more like humor than a troll... -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solve

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: Even more amazingly, it takes approximately 30% less time to say 'ruby' than to say 'python'!!! But "python" scores 55% more points than "ruby" in Scrabble, so that's understandable. It also explains why both languages are much better

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 13:25 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Sam Ettessoc wrote: > > I would like to share a benchmark I did. The computer used was a > > 2160MHz Intel Core Duo w/ 2000MB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM running MAC OS > > 10.5.6 and a lots of software running (a t

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Sam Ettessoc wrote: > I would like to share a benchmark I did. The computer used was a > 2160MHz Intel Core Duo w/ 2000MB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM running MAC OS > 10.5.6 and a lots of software running (a typical developer > workstation). > > Python benchmark: > HAMBUR

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Dear sir, > > I would like to share a benchmark I did. The computer used was a > 2160MHz Intel Core Duo w/ 2000MB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM running MAC OS > 10.5.6 and a lots of software running (a typical developer > workstation). > > Python benchmark: > HAMBURGUESA:benchmark sam$ echo 1+1 > bench.py

Re: unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-12, Sam Ettessoc wrote: > Dear sir, [Rather odd "benchmark" troll elided.] > Sam Ettessoc > p.s. I have no affiliation with ruby or python devloppement team. A fact for which I'm sure both communities are grateful. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I feel

unbiased benchmark

2009-03-12 Thread Sam Ettessoc
Dear sir, I would like to share a benchmark I did. The computer used was a 2160MHz Intel Core Duo w/ 2000MB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM running MAC OS 10.5.6 and a lots of software running (a typical developer workstation). Python benchmark: HAMBURGUESA:benchmark sam$ echo 1+1 > bench.py HAMBURGUESA:ben