itsastickup wrote: > I had heard that ruby on a linux VM running on windows can be faster > than on that same install of windows.
You should try Vista. I experimented with Qemu and Puppy-Linux recently, and everything was faster. Microsoft has nobody to blame but themselves for their market erosion and incredibly bad software. (I'm posting this from Kubuntu now, thank you.) > The actual tests themselves run between 2 and 3 times faster, but it > seems to be initialization that takes the bulk of the time. Right - the program loader is pathetic. It assumes we want to load MS Office, once, and live inside it for a while. It can't comprehend scripts that call many small executables. -- Phlip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

