No, 5 minutes in Ruby vs < 1s in Go. OP's last benchmark was only for the it...

		dljsjr on April 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby is too slow for programming competitions No, 5 minutes in Ruby vs < 1s in Go. OP's last benchmark was only for the iteration part. Look just above it and he posts the Ruby times at around 5m. Still, pretty drastic.