It’s a slow news day, so I thought I ‘d show you the package art for the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV game, slated for release sometime in the new year. It looks like they don’t want to mess with success:
Needs more candy-licking!
According to the Grand Theft Auto IV site, a new video, titled Move Up, Ladies, will appear on December 6th at 3:00 p.m. EST.
The real point to take from Antonio Cangiano’s article, Holy Shmoly, Ruby 1.9 smokes Python away!, is not that Ruby 1.9 runs circles around Python, but that Ruby 1.9’s performance appears to be dramatically better than Ruby 1.8’s.
Keep in mind that the article cites only one benchmark, a simple Fibonacci script:
def fib(n)
if n == 0 || n == 1
n
else
fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
end
end
36.times do |i|
puts "n=#{i} => #{fib(i)}"
end
On Cangiano’s machine, Ruby 1.8 took 159 seconds to run the script. Ruby 1.9 completed the task 13 times faster, clocking in at just under 12 seconds.
I’ll repeat what I said earlier: this is just one test. If you want to give Ruby 1.9 a proper performance shakedown, you’ll need to install it on your machine and compare its performance with Ruby 1.8 using a number of scripts. Luckily, the Ruby Inside blog has an article titled How to Start Playing with Ruby 1.9 Right Now! that provides easy instructions for acquiring and installing Ruby 1.9 in its own separate directory. I may just have to take 1.9 for a spin soon.
Recent posts on Reddit have pointed to a number of Dilbert comic strips poking fun at extreme and agile programming; I thought I’d gather them in one place. Here they are, posted for your enjoyment (for as long as I escape the notice of United Feature Syndicate):
