Re:Is Ruby Fast Yet?
by brianhempel on Thursday January 02, 2014 @07:06PM
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The variance is sometimes due to RVM troubles. The benchmark is partly a test of the entire Ruby ecosystem. If RVM is bugging, then people are installing sub-optimal implementations. For example: https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/issues/1418
"x is better" where x is more requests, faster startup time, or less memory usage.
I prefer graphs that lead me to what I should expect and that sentence would go a long way to eliminate the "mental math" I had to do to understand each one.
On another note, the 2 year graphs are particularly interesting. They're more consistent than not but those inconsistencies seem a little awkward.