From: Florian Weber Date: 2004-06-21T08:11:53+09:00 Subject: Re: rubys web performance On Jun 21, 2004, at 1:00 Uhr, Aredridel wrote: >> and anyways, why does it take ruby so long to load the files and >> compile >> it when the same would only take a fragment of it with php? > > In short, PHP is optimized for ease of computer parsing. > > Ruby is optimized for human parsing. hehe.. 'my application is really slow, but thats because the application is optimized towards high usability' ; )