How Fast Are the New Guys?

We recently told you about the release of Rubinius 1.0 and jRuby 1.5.0, both of which should be faster than their predecessors, and possibly faster than MRI itself.  But the guys over at should_be :awesome have really put this to the test, running the Ruby benchmark suite with Rubinius 1.0, jRuby 1.5.0, MRI 1.9.2-head and MRI 1.8.7.  The results are available in a (quite large) table.  Fastest results of each test are in blue, and you can see that in quite a few tests, Rubinius is coming out ahead.

You can see the full results at Ruby VM Shootout.