Single core cloud computing performance

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# Very simple CPU test. Not ideal.

# Setup (where possible):
# Ubuntu 11.04
# apt-get install ruby # 1.8.7

# ci:jocke $ ruby -v
# ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [x86_64-linux]

ruby -e 't=Time.now;100000000.times { 22%5 };puts Time.now-t'

# Cloud:
Glesys XEN: 19.4
Glesys OpenVZ: 19.4
AWS, c1.medium: 25.9

# Other:
Our CI server (i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz): 11.4
MacBook Air (Late 2010): 26