Freakishly Fast Ruby Coming To Mac


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Freakishly fast' Ruby coming to the Mac

Blowing up the bridge

2nd April 2009 00:50 GMT

Mac developers intrigued by Ruby's ease of use and simple maintainability but deterred by its turgid performance will be happy to hear MacRuby 0.5 - aka its "experimental branch" - is remarkably snappy.

Exactly how snappy is remarkably snappy? A suite of low-level benchmark tests recently performed by Antonio Cangiano of Zen and the Art of Programming shows MacRuby 0.5 to be on average just under three times as fast as Ruby 1.9.1, with some operations coming in at nearly eight times faster.

RegAd('mpu1', 'reg.software.4159/front', 'pos=top;sz=336x280', VCs); According to Cagiano: "MacRuby... has the potential to become a game changer - at least for Mac developers. Based on Ruby 1.9, MacRuby’s main aim is to provide programmers with the ability to write Mac OS X applications in Ruby, making Ruby a first-class Cocoa programming language."

<li> Full story - The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/02/macruby_0_5/

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