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.

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