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You don't have to wonder - all the code is downloadable. You can run the benchmark on Ruby 1.9 yourself.


That's true, but I'll live with wondering a little longer. In the meantime, it seems that Lua is still quite a bit faster than ruby 1.9.0, even though ruby 1.9.0 is approaching Python 2 territory (tested 7 months ago):

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all...




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