From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-12T09:37:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Location of missing end

On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 12:26:07 AM, Markus wrote:

>       * The overhead, small as it is, is only at compile time, which is
>         typically a small fraction of any ruby program that does
>         significant work.

That's a pretty sensitive area though.  I'm philosophical about Ruby's
performance -- it does the job so well that I don't complain -- but
startup time can get annoying when you're running Ruby programs
frequently (unit tests, document generation).

>       * Empirically, for the ~50,000 line randomly generate test program
>         from my free-form operators patch, the difference was too small
>         to measure.

But I ain't gonna argue with that.

Gavin