From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T17:24:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance of Ruby


"Michael Gebhart" <mail@miketech.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:ckcgh9$m23$1@news2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de...
> Hi,
>
> I am just thinking about programming a serverapplication with Ruby. The
> application should manage a lot of sockets and should also be
> multithreaded. One year ago I have tried to develop a similar
application
> with php. The performance was absolutely bad. No, that was not only my
> fault ;) My question is now: What about the performance of ruby? Is it
> possible to write an application using sockets and threads with ruby,
but
> also with a good performance? Normally I am using C/C++ for these
things.
> Sure, Ruby will not be as far as C/C++. But the php-scripts were very
very
> slow. Has anyone experiences with this?

There once was a post of a success story porting a php app to ruby.  The
port was not only considerably less lines of code but also easier to
maintain and above all, faster.  Here's the original:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=de&lr=&selm=20031201213101.GC18957%40saber.xen.dk

Kind regards

    robert