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Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby by JohnStrange on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:54AM (#12224886)
I have no problem with GC, but I want to see reasonably complicated benchmarks that actually show that it's "fast as C". Because I don't believe that at all.
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Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby by rogerdpack on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:11AM (#12225604)
Are you saying the GC is as fast as C? I bet it's not. That being said, the programs I've built in crystal "feel" very fast, here are a few random performance tests, if you're asking about overall performance:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/crystal-l...

https://crystal-lang.org/2016/07/15/fibonacci-benchmark.html

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Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby by igouy on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:02PM (#12226451)
"but I want to see reasonably complicated benchmarks"

I very much doubt that a fib code-snippet is what he was asking about.

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