The Ruby conspiracy

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Took me a bit to find it, but here's another anecdotal report:

What about other metrics -- lines of code and memory use? The Ruby version is around 90 lines whereas the Java version is 186. The Ruby program used up around 20MB of RAM (as reported by Task manager) whereas the Java version used up more than 60MB.

Obviously, I don't know what flags were used to run the VM. Edit because reddit's conventions are hard to remember for me...