Performance: Crystal vs Ruby

In my previous post, I introduced the Crystal programming language, and additionally compared it some to it’s major influence, the Ruby programming languange.In this post, I want to compare and contrast their runtime performance. Yes, this topic is awesome enough (to mean they differ enough in performance) to deserve it’s own post!We’ll be comparing the runtime performance of the same source code. This is so cool. You’ll almost never find two different programming languages where you can run the same source code on. Of course, in real-world applications, this will almost certainly never be the case, as a real-world application will almost always contain enough code that at some point they will just plain out differ in syntax (e.g. when using third-party dependencies).Let’s get to some code and run it!.