Contributed by jason on 2011-03-04 from the benchmarks-are-meaningless-but-we-cant-help-ourselves dept.

NetBSD developer Jaime Fournier has published a new round of Ruby benchmarks comparing the various BSD projects and Ubuntu Linux. Some readers will remember he performed a similar test a couple of years ago. A quick review of the data reveals improvements by OpenBSD. The following is a snippet from the full report available on his website.

Benchmarks from ruby-benchmark-suite run on ruby-1.9.2-p180 with rubygems-1.5.3 Benchmarks found at https://github.com/acangiano/ruby-benchmark-suite Dragonfly 2.9 - With Hammer root filesystem FreeBSD 8.2 - Default disk layout NetBSD 5.1 - Default disk layout OpenBSD 4.8 - Default disk layout Linux - Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition The hardware which is an intel i7 with a dedicated 40GB SSD used for each os with default installs. FreeBSD dmesg here http://linbsd.org/fbsd.dmesg OpenBSD dmesg here http://linbsd.org/obsd.dmesg These are the mean values taken from each benchmark. The name format is benchmark_parameters_iterations Charts might come as more OS's are added. Warning: No attempt to ensure the same compiler was used on each os as this would be unrealistic given these systems come with compilers and typically would be used to build ruby. Email any questions or rants to jaimef@linbsd.org Totals Wins by OS 190 NetBSD 5.1 100 Dragonfly 2.9 88 Linux - Ubuntu 10.10 65 OpenBSD 4.8 46 FreeBSD 8.2

Editor's Note: Some readers may point out that OpenBSD performance is near the bottom of the list. I would remind those users that if web application performance is your key requirement, then Ruby probably shouldn't be your language of choice anyways. :)