James McGovern:

Since industry analysts tend to focus on features at the expense of security, I figured I would use several tools to determine of what quality Ruby is relative to both Java and .NET. I wanted to also include a version of SmallTalk, more specifically the version that James Robertson evangelizes but wasn't sure of if benchmarking information could be published.

Heh. Unlike some of the big vendors, who get their panties in a twist over the idea of independent benchmarks, we don't care. If they don't look good, hey - they don't look good, and either we have work to do, or there's a problem with the test. Either way, we'll learn something.

Btw, it's Smalltalk, not SmallTalk :)