Yeah after some extensive benchmarking it seemed the performance of
(Mac)Ruby was never gonna be enough compared to perl.
An example of some code that 99% of the apps exist of:
% time ./miniruby -e "print 'hello world'"
hello world./miniruby -e "print 'hello world'" 0,05s user 0,08s
system 86% cpu 0,143 total
% time perl -e "print 'hello world'"
hello worldperl -e "print 'hello world'" 0,00s user 0,00s system 66%
cpu 0,007 total
So the right choice was made…
:-P
Seriously though, I'm sure lots could be done to help ppc users out.
But I feel this is exactly one of the reasons why OSS is a good
choice. Because people who really need a feature can go fix it
themselves. And because they really need it, it will be done the right
way.
Obviously I can't speak for Laurent, but atm I would suggest simply
doing it if you care about it.
Patches are always very welcome.
Kind regards,
Eloy
On 5 apr 2009, at 16:51, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
MacPerl? Hey, what happened to macruby? I go on vacation and MacRuby
becomes macperl ;)
-Matt
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 5, 2009, at 0:23, Rich Morin <r...@cfcl.com> wrote:
I realize that Laurent and company have their hands full with
simply trying to make JIT (etc) work on Intel hardware. So,
I don't expect anyone to make this work on PPC hardware, as
well (at least in the short run :-).
However, it occurs to me that it might be possible to "guard"
the Intel-specific code such that it doesn't even TRY to run
unless an Intel processor is being used. This could allow
PPC users to play with new MacPerl releases, albeit in a less
optimized manner.
Is this is a possibility?
-r
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