Oh, today is a sad, sad day for me.
Ruby seems to be as slow as Python3; which, in my previous benchmark: https://gitlab.com/renich/benchmarks/ was not! It was just between PHP and Python2.
Not the published one but, I remember, ruby was around 400 ms... damn... really, I am sad... sniff... sniff...
[renich@introdesk one_million]$ make all gcc -O9 -o one_million one_million.c &> /dev/null time ./one_million &> /dev/null real 0m0.144s user 0m0.137s sys 0m0.004s time perl one_million.pl &> /dev/null real 0m0.248s user 0m0.239s sys 0m0.005s time php-cgi one_million.phps &> /dev/null real 0m0.482s user 0m0.283s sys 0m0.027s time python one_million.py &> /dev/null real 0m0.776s user 0m0.752s sys 0m0.020s time python3 one_million.py3 &> /dev/null real 0m3.087s user 0m2.421s sys 0m0.049s time ruby one_million.rb &> /dev/null real 0m2.634s user 0m1.338s sys 0m0.103s