New iMacs are Fast. Really Fricken Fast.

I finally upgraded my home workstation to one of the new just-released iMacs, which are reported to be the fastest Macs ever by MacRumors.

I concur! They are really really fast! For us rubyists, here are some benchmarks building Ruby VM on this machine using RVM (my home directory is on the SSD drive):

• Ruby 1.8.7 (14 seconds to download)

real 1m20.815s
user 0m48.298s
sys 0m11.479s

• Ruby 1.8.7 Enterprise Edition (13 seconds to download)

real 2m28.106s
user 1m54.450s
sys 0m14.372s

• Ruby 1.9.2 (download time 38 seconds)

real 3m0.167s
user 1m56.891s
sys 0m19.959s

Model Info:

  Model Name: iMac
  Model Identifier: iMac12,2
  Processor Name: Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed: 3.4 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores: 4
  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
  L3 Cache: 8 MB
  Memory: 8 GB