From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T06:22:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [RAILS] way too slow...

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, David Morton wrote:

> Florian Weber wrote:
>
> > like david already said, that requests can take up to one second using
> > cgi is totally normal. ruby has to parse tons of classes for every
> > execution
> > with that. i have to admit that i was also surprised by that at first.
> > especially
> > when you compare it to php. but then again most of the php libs are c..
>
> Hmm, that makes me wonder if part of the rails framework could be set up
> as some C extensions...
>

If profiling indicates it, you might look into rubyinline ... really a
nice way to get those c extensions in quickly and easily.

-pate