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Re:Lua vs Ruby benchmarks (similarly "high-level" languages,... by Zak on Friday January 30, 2009 @05:08PM (#458792)
You don't have to wonder - all the code is downloadable. You can run the benchmark on Ruby 1.9 yourself.
Re:Lua vs Ruby benchmarks (similarly "high-level" languages,... by zcrar70 on Friday January 30, 2009 @05:26PM (#458827)
That's true, but I'll live with wondering a little longer. In the meantime, it seems that Lua is still quite a bit faster than ruby 1.9.0, even though ruby 1.9.0 is approaching Python 2 territory (tested 7 months ago):

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all...