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jrockway
13y ago
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Computers are easier (though perhaps less fun) to make than humans. Ruby is slow but it's close enough to Java that the numbers will still work out. Humans: probably not.
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thebluesky
13y ago
30x slower seems a bit of a stretch for "close enough":
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
rimantas
13y ago
You should look at performance difference in relevant operations. I doubt that they calculate mandelbrots at twitter.
thebluesky
13y ago
> You should look at performance difference in relevant operations
If you have a link to a Twitter-realistic benchmark I'd be interested see the results.
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