I finally upgraded my home workstation to one of the new just-released iMacs, which are reported to be the fastest Macs ever by MacRumors.
Ruby 1.8.7 Enterprise Edition (13 seconds to download)
Ruby 1.9.2 (download time 38 seconds)
I concur! They are really really fast! For us rubyists, here are some benchmarks building Ruby VM on this machine using RVM (my home directory is on the SSD drive):
- Ruby 1.8.7 (14 seconds to download)
real 1m20.815s user 0m48.298s sys 0m11.479s
real 2m28.106s user 1m54.450s sys 0m14.372s
real 3m0.167s user 1m56.891s sys 0m19.959sModel Info:
Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac12,2 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 3.4 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 8 MB Memory: 8 GB
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