From: klausm0762@... (Klaus Momberger)
Date: 2004-08-28T07:21:18+09:00
Subject: Re: performance comparison

Boris Glawe <boris@boris-glawe.de> wrote in message news:<cglqqh$ql1$1@newsreader2.netcologne.de>...
> Hi,
> 
....
> 
> I included the code below. Is this performance difference normal ? We are 
> talking about the factor 62 !! Maybe I have done something wrong in my 
> algorithm, but I don't know what. It's very straight and doesn't use any 
> expensive container operations:
> 

yes, 2 orders of magnitude in performance between C and Ruby (Python, TCL...) is
usually quite normal. It is up to you to decide if this is "fast enough".
Otoh, if you can use a lot of Ruby built-ins, the result may be a lot better.

-klaus