VS2010 (x64) vs GCC 4.5.1 (x86), GCC 4.5.3 (x86) and GCC 4.5.3 (x64) - Pointless microbenchmarks

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# i386-mingw32: RubyInstaller
# x64-mswin64_100: Arton's NougakuDo (http://www.artonx.org/data/nougakudo/index.html)
# x64-mingw32: Experimental 64bits RubyInstaller

ruby 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [i386-mingw32]
time elapsed: 10.772616 sec.
time elapsed: 10.782617 sec.
time elapsed: 10.796617 sec.
time elapsed: 10.754615 sec.
time elapsed: 10.824619 sec.
AVG: 10.7862168

ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18) [i386-mingw32]
time elapsed: 2.61815 sec.
time elapsed: 2.583148 sec.
time elapsed: 2.593149 sec.
time elapsed: 2.577147 sec.
time elapsed: 2.61215 sec.
AVG: 2.5967488

ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-05-04 trunk 31418) [i386-mingw32]
time elapsed: 2.467141 sec.
time elapsed: 2.458141 sec.
time elapsed: 2.461141 sec.
time elapsed: 2.452141 sec.
time elapsed: 2.464141 sec.
AVG: 2.4605409

ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-04-25) [x64-mswin64_100]
time elapsed: 6.28536 sec.
time elapsed: 6.264359 sec.
time elapsed: 6.232356 sec.
time elapsed: 6.256358 sec.
time elapsed: 6.203354 sec.
AVG: 6.2483574

ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-05-04 trunk 31418) [x64-mingw32]
time elapsed: 2.340134 sec.
time elapsed: 2.341134 sec.
time elapsed: 2.355135 sec.
time elapsed: 2.366135 sec.
time elapsed: 2.335134 sec.
AVG: 2.3475344

Pretty awesome results. Impressive that gcc is so much better.