Crystal Vs Ruby
Initially i measured crystal redis against ruby and c.
Crystal vs ruby. The verneuil method or verneuil process or verneuil technique also called flame fusion was the first commercially successful method of manufacturing synthetic gemstones developed in the late 1883 by the french chemist auguste verneuil it is primarily used to produce the ruby sapphire and padparadscha varieties of corundum as well as the diamond simulants rutile and strontium titanate. In summary crystal implements a similar syntax to mri ruby the official c based interpreter. As hoped and expected crystal was much faster than ruby and slightly slower than c. What are the differences.
Crystal is a very interesting project that i have been following for the last couple of months. Homeworld was attempting to create a new colony on earth which was overseen by blue diamond. This is due to compiler optimizations and the ability to use primitive data types in crystal. Surprisingly go with the redigo library outperformed c with hiredis the officially recommended client library for c.
Developers describe crystal as fast as c slick as ruby crystal is a programming language that resembles ruby but compiles to native code and tries to be much more efficient at the cost of disallowing certain dynamic aspects of ruby. The color of a ruby is due to the element chromium. The promise on its site is that the language is as fast as c sleek as ruby. She was part of the diplomatic team sent to stop rose s rebellion on earth as one of the three rubies assigned to guard sapphire an aristocratic gem with prophetic vision.
The word ruby comes from ruber latin for red. Ruby zodiac stone of capricorn. Over 5 750 years ago ruby lived on homeworld as a common foot soldier. Under the hood they are completely different beasts.
It also implements many of the same standard libraries as mri ruby hash net io etc. A ruby is a pink to blood red coloured gemstone a variety of the mineral corundum aluminium oxide other varieties of gem quality corundum are called sapphires ruby is one of the traditional cardinal gems together with amethyst sapphire emerald and diamond. This statement sounds exciting and makes you want to check how fast crystal is comparing to ruby. In one example summing random numbers in crystal can be 10 orders of magnitude faster than ruby 37 million percent faster.
There is no 1 0 release yet but it s close so i haven t really used it in any production systems but its newness makes it a very good language to get into open source if you check out their site the tag line for crystal is fast as c slick as ruby. Red crystals bring you energy courage passion and love. Since i was learning go on the side i ported this benchmark to two go clients. Ruby is one of the two gems fused to form garnet.
Ruby with its red color is one of the natural birthstones of those born in mid autumn october 22 november 20.