On Nov 3, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Yannick Wurm wrote: > I found some generic benchmarks indicating that ruby is generally > only a bit slower than perl > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ruby&lang2=perl http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=perl&box=1