On 9 Des, 23:34, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >http://antoniocangiano.com/2007/11/28/holy-shmoly-ruby-19-smokes-pyth... > > The Ruby developers are allowed to be proud. They were able to optimize > some aspects of the implementation to get one algorithm about 14 times > faster. That's good work. But why was it so slow in the first place?
The thing to notice here is that Congiano spent 31.5 seconds computing 36 Fibonacci numbers in Python and 11.9 seconds doing the same in Ruby. Those numbers are ridiculous! The only thing they prove is that Congiano should not be programming computers. Anyone getting such results should take a serious look at their algoritm instead of blaming the language. I don't care if it takes 31.5 seconds to compute 36 Fibonacci numbers in Python 2.5.1 with the dumbest possible algorithm. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list