From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-10-10T03:54:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is a slow performer

In article <1097311171.Cz/0lZE0M9/toShS+N4TCA@teranews>,
Sergei Gnezdov  <nobody@noresponse.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just found an interesting benchmark site.  I am sure many of you know 
>about it :)
>
>   http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
>
>Ruby is one of the slowest performers among compared languages.
>Are there any plans to get better?
>

Rite (Ruby 2.0) is planned to use a VM.  Perhaps YARV or maybe another.

Also, Ruby is generally 'fast enough' for most tasks.  For things where 
you need more speed it's quite easy to write a C extension either 
directly using the Ruby C API (quite easy really) or by using RubyInline 
or CGenerator.  Often you only need to speed up a few methods in your 
whole application by writing them in C.

Phil