From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-06-22T02:05:28+09:00
Subject: Re: rubys web performance

> I don't think he was talking about parsing speed there; he wrote that
> "classes are cached".

Maybe I misunderstood.  My impression was that he was talking about the 
startup time of a CGI being longer under Ruby than PHP, but that it's a bit 
of an apples and oranges comparison since most of the Ruby libs are written 
in Ruby and a lot of the PHP libs are .so's written in C.

I was just saying that if one eliminates that from the equation using some 
sort of persistence for the Ruby code, then the comparison gets much better.

> > The advantage to something like Kwartz is that it is written in C, so it 
> > fundamentally pretty fast.
> 
> No, it generates Ruby code.

Guh, you're right.  To many parsing systems in my head.  LOL.  Thanks.  I 
think that I was thinking of Clearsilver.


Thanks,

Kirk Haines