From: Jeff Moore on
Jian Lin wrote:
> How fast does your Ruby run?
>
> I got 53648 iterations per second running the following program,
> on an Intel 3.2 GHz HT, Win XP machine:
>
> --------
>
> C:\> ruby calculate.rb
> 55
>
> Ruby 1.8.6 patch 0 on i386-mswin32
> It took 18.64 seconds to run. 53648 iterations per second.
>

Running the original code:

Ruby 1.9.1 patch 378 on x86_64-linux
It took 1.277456379 seconds to run. 782805 iterations per second.

Compiled on a Phenom II X4 955 with gcc 4.4.1 with -O3 -mtune=native
OS: Ubuntu 9.10
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