From: Robert Klemme Date: 2004-09-14T17:44:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Perl to Ruby "Gavin Sinclair" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:18852.129.94.6.30.1095134199.squirrel@webmail.imagineis.com... > Sorry I can't help with the specifics, but my general advice is this: all > the projects you mention are immature, with the possible exception of > JPython. Although I didn't test it completely, my impression is that Groovy is quite mature, too. > So I wouldn't accept any general statements about their > performance -- the figures would already be out of date. I don't even > recall any discussion on this list about their performance over the last > couple of years. Yes, performance for the application case at hand must be measured. General comparisons don't help much here. > Summary: you'll have to test them out yourself, which shouldn't be too > hard, since Jython, JRuby, and Groovy are all demonstrated in those IBM > articles. Yes! > The most mature of those projects is Jython, I suspect, so that's likely > to be your best bet, given your requirements. As I said, I didn't do extensive testing of Groovy and I don't know Jython - but Groovy seems to be quite mature (as well). Kind regards robert