<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Interesting. Anybody tried it yet? Or more to the point has anybody tried<DIV>Rails on it?<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Reading through the post I'm thinking there wouldn't be much of a benefit for Rails</DIV><DIV>apps currently:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"In micro-benchmarks that involve raising exceptions, we are slower than Ruby 1.8.6; </DIV><DIV>but if control flow on your program's critical path involves raising exceptions you may want to rethink your design :)"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Excerpt from <A href="http://www.iunknown.com/2007/07/a-first-look-at.html">http://www.iunknown.com/2007/07/a-first-look-at.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Martin</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On 24 Jul 2007, at 10:24, Anthony Green wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><BR> >From a fellow A&Mi SE....<BR> <BR> ------ Forwarded Message<BR> <BR> Microsoft made the first "pre-alpha" release of IronRuby (Ruby on .NET) yesterday. A comment from one of the developers says they've seen "3-6x performance wins in many cases for standard benchmarks" compared to plain Ruby.<BR> <BR> <A href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/23/first-look-at-ironruby.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/23/first-look-at-ironruby.aspx</A> <BR> <A href="http://www.iunknown.com/2007/07/a-first-look-at.html">http://www.iunknown.com/2007/07/a-first-look-at.html</A> <BR> <BR> It also runs under the latest svn trunk version of Mono (a cross-platform open source .NET): <BR> <BR> <A href="http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jul-23-1.html">http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jul-23-1.html</A> <BR> <A href="http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/">http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/</A> <BR> <BR> <BR> ------ End of Forwarded Message<BR> </SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk">http://www.bbc.co.uk</A><BR>This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated.<BR>If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system.<BR>Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately.<BR>Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received.<BR>Further communication will signify your consent to this.</FONT><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>