[BioRuby] Ruby speed

Yannick Wurm yannick.wurm at unil.ch
Wed Nov 4 19:56:13 UTC 2009


> Notice your user and system times are less than a factor of three.
> It's only the real time that is 10x, which suggests that ruby is
> waiting on other processes, e.g. disk reads.

Great point Robert - I hadn't seen that. My guess the difference is  
due to the fact that ruby is only installed in my networked (sfs) home  
dir on the linux server, not on the local machine like perl is. Gotta  
get the sysadmins to install ruby :)

cheers!
yannick




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