Yes, Ruby is fast, but…

• crystalruby

  4 579 7.2 Ruby

  Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby

It is common to call C functions from Ruby or Crystal. It's interesting to know that there are alternatives to bridge these two languages that share the same goal of writing beautiful programs, using a similar syntax. The mentioned crystalruby gem allows interfacing Ruby programs with Crystal, and the shard anyolite allows calling Ruby programs from Crystal.

• Programming-Language-Benchmarks

  20 604 5.3 C#

  Yet another implementation of computer language benchmarks game

Crystal and Ruby are two wonderful languages, each with their pros and cons. Crystal's performance and low memory footprint is hardly contested, and can further be studied in the benchmarks of language and compilers (but be critical about benchmarks!).

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• anyolite

  7 161 6.4 Crystal

  Embedded mruby/Ruby for Crystal

  

It is common to call C functions from Ruby or Crystal. It's interesting to know that there are alternatives to bridge these two languages that share the same goal of writing beautiful programs, using a similar syntax. The mentioned crystalruby gem allows interfacing Ruby programs with Crystal, and the shard anyolite allows calling Ruby programs from Crystal.

• llvm-project

  355 26,178 10.0 C++

  The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

  

In conclusion, none of the proposed changes to the Ruby version of the code makes a dent in the Crystal version. This is not entirely Crystal's doing: it uses the LLVM backend, which generates very optimized binaries.

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