From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T08:45:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance of Ruby

On Oct 10, 2004, at 6:29 PM, Michael Gebhart wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am just thinking about programming a serverapplication with Ruby.

Ruby is considerably slower than C of course.

However, network applications tend to spend a lot of time waiting on 
traffic, so I think load would need to be quite significant, before 
Ruby is slowing you down significantly.

Could you please tell us how many users you need to accommodate and 
what the server would be doing?  I'm just trying to get a feel for the 
processing involved.

I would be pretty surprised if Ruby can't handle a couple hundred users 
if the processing isn't too intensive?  Though, I will confess that I'm 
guessing.

(I've handle over 50 in Perl at a surprisingly high loads.)

James Edward Gray II