From: Ryan Davis <ryand@...>
Date: 2002-08-22T04:54:05+09:00
Subject: optimizing efforts?

yeah... i'm a dope. I need more coffee today. Resent w/ a real subject.

On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 12:45 PM, Ryan Davis wrote:

> Is any work being done to speed up certain aspects of ruby? I was 
> looking at "The Great Computer Language Shootout" yesterday and we are 
> only barely trailing behind perl and python... Digging into more 
> detail, there are some small benchmarks that look like they'd be easy 
> to profile (ackermann's function for example) and might get us a nice 
> little win.
>
> I'm not a speed-freak myself, but I thought if we could tie perl & 
> python, it would be one less reason for perlers not to take a look at 
> us and possibly switch.
>