Michael Letterle: > I'd just gotten done implementing DEFLATE in pure ruby, and figuring > there'd be a performance hit I was interested to see what it would be. > On IronRuby (compiled in Release) it takes a full 16 seconds to > decompress a ~1KB file... in CRuby it's less then a second. An ~800KB > file takes 42 seconds in CRuby, while IronRuby takes a whopping... > well I don't know, I killed it after it was running for about a half > hour and using upwards of 100MB of memory! > > Now this is just a straight port of "puff.c" from the zlib library, so > it's certainly not optimized for speed in any way, but the difference > in runtimes really struck me. > > I suppose at the very least we have a good stress test for rbx ;) Just > thought I'd share.
Cool :) Can you send along the source code for your implementation so we can investigate? Thanks -John _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
