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Some simple ruby 1.9.3 benchmarks
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The two rubies:
- 1.9.2 "ruby-1.9.2-p180-patched" (using https://raw.github.com/gist/1008945/7532898172cd9f03b4c0d0db145bc2440dcbb2f6/load.patch)
- 1.9.3 "ruby-1.9.3-preview1"
The app:
- Rails 3.1rc4 app with some scaffolds.
Results:
Ruby: Rails environment load time: Full spec suite: Unit tests:
1.9.2 7.2 sec 34 sec 19 sec
1.9.3 4.5 sec 27 sec 11 sec
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joakimk commented Jul 31, 2011

Also tried it with a few non-rails projects, it's about 30-40% faster for everything so far.

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joakimk commented Aug 1, 2011

Executing a spec through spork dropped from 800ms to 500ms :D

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joakimk commented Aug 4, 2011

Discovered that my tests where affected by the fact that I had this in my profile:

export RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT=40000000

It's slightly slower without it.

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