Re: [MacRuby-devel] Another meaningless benchmark

2009-10-29 Thread Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D.
Hi Conrad, They are seconds of execution (clock) time, I believe. Mostly arbitrary, since they're run on a different machine than the original. -enp On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Conrad Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. > wrote: > But what the heck,

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Another meaningless benchmark

2009-10-29 Thread Conrad Taylor
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. < prabh...@apple.com> wrote: > But what the heck, they're fun. :-) > > http://www.timestretch.com/FractalBenchmark.html > > prabhaka$ ruby --version > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0] > Ruby Elapsed 4.885692 >

[MacRuby-devel] Another meaningless benchmark

2009-10-29 Thread Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D.
But what the heck, they're fun. :-) http://www.timestretch.com/FractalBenchmark.html prabhaka$ ruby --version ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0] Ruby Elapsed 4.885692 prabhaka$ macruby --version MacRuby version 0.5 (ruby 1.9.0) [universal-darwin10.0, x86_64] Ruby Elapse