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Hi, rubyists,

I'm using ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i586-mswin32] and find file I/O too slow. Is ruby 1.8.0 faster? Some one in the list said speed is quite dependant on how ruby is compiled. Is that true?

Lei WENG

> I'm using ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i586-mswin32] and find file I/O too slow. Is ruby 1.8.0 faster? Some one in the list said speed is quite dependant on how ruby is compiled. Is that true?
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For IO ruby 1.8.0 is significantly faster than 1.6.8: My I/O intensive
test suite runs in 1.5s with ruby 1.8.0 and in 24.3s in ruby 1.6.8.

I'd say that is a pretty substantial improvement

Cheers,

Thomas