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Christopher Roach
Personal blog · christopherroach.comprogrammingdataeconomics
Christopher Roach's personal blog at christopherroach.com covers programming, data and economics. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Ruby Fibonacci Shootout, Part 2 (MacRuby vs LuaJIT)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on language performance and Apple's language and API future, including a Ruby Fibonacci benchmark against Lua. One commenter links the benchmark while arguing about MacRuby's speed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Musings on data science and software engineering (and at times, economics as well)
Most-linked posts?
- Ruby Fibonacci Shootout, Part 2 (MacRuby vs LuaJIT)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-01-21
What Hacker News says?
I actually hadn't looked too closely at MacRuby. Might I suggest that you do so? ...but compared to (particularly) Lua it's just not fast enough. I beg to differ; Here's why: http://christopherroach.com/2010/01/21/ruby-fibonacci-shooto... I just don't like Ruby's chances when paired against the other two. I do. JS might give it a run, with WebKit also being Apple-sponsored. But, there's no Apple-sponsored Lua implem…
Comment linking /2010/01/21/ruby-fibonacci-shootout-2/
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