[rubyn00bie]

Erlang makes no claims about being fast in these sorts of tests. They aren't using what it was designed to do.

Also some languages like, Ruby, do really well on some of these tests because the C-code underneath has been written well (example regexes are just as fast under ruby as they are anywhere else because the underlying C-library kicks ass though I forget the name of it).

[smitherfield]

You're probably thinking of PCRE, although Ruby actually uses Onigmo: https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo