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Re:The Ruby Web Benchmark Report by troels on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @02:20PM (#8038093)
Very thorough work and some interesting points along the way.

The title is a bit misleading though - This is not so much benchmarking Ruby as it is benchmarking the infrastructure around it. People may be switching to other languages because the actual application code is faster.

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Re:The Ruby Web Benchmark Report by programminggeek on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @02:30PM (#8038147)
Well that could be true. The intent was for it to be a web benchmark, so benchmarking all the basic ruby web variants.

It's certainly not a pure ruby hello world test, but I think there is a lot of value in testing the infrastructure around Ruby. That has a huge impact on performance.

I don't doubt that other languages have faster application code, but figuring out how much faster vs what the best possible option for the existing code is worth exploring I think.

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