Peaches Posted April 2, 2009 Report Share Posted April 2, 2009 >>>>>>>>>>>>>Freakishly fast' Ruby coming to the Mac Blowing up the bridge 2nd April 2009 00:50 GMT Mac developers intrigued by Ruby's ease of use and simple maintainability but deterred by its turgid performance will be happy to hear MacRuby 0.5 - aka its "experimental branch" - is remarkably snappy. Exactly how snappy is remarkably snappy? A suite of low-level benchmark tests recently performed by Antonio Cangiano of Zen and the Art of Programming shows MacRuby 0.5 to be on average just under three times as fast as Ruby 1.9.1, with some operations coming in at nearly eight times faster. RegAd('mpu1', 'reg.software.4159/front', 'pos=top;sz=336x280', VCs); According to Cagiano: "MacRuby... has the potential to become a game changer - at least for Mac developers. Based on Ruby 1.9, MacRuby’s main aim is to provide programmers with the ability to write Mac OS X applications in Ruby, making Ruby a first-class Cocoa programming language." <li> Full story - The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/02/macruby_0_5/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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