I guess I should have specified, I was thinking of the benchmarks vs non-invokedynamic JRuby. No intention of starting a benchmark war. Ruby 1.9 is fast too.
OK. Back to August 29th, JRuby 1.7.0 preview2, invoke-dynamic=true on the right, the last number is elapsed time in seconds (so 451.046 vs 258.643 with invoke-dynamic=true) --