From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2004-11-06T06:23:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is a slow performer

gabriele renzi wrote:

> About the shootout. Most of the stuff is plan useless in ruby.
> You won't implemente heapsort in ruby, cause you have sort/sort_by.
> Nor you would use
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/lang/ruby/random.ruby.html
> because you have rand().

You are correct. I would say that the shootout is extremely
misleading, for example the Python people do dubious tricks
to make it look fast: for example the matrix multiplication is
implemented by calling the an extension method.

> Basically remeber that ruby is 'fast enough' for most things, useless 
> for others. You can't have everything I guess :)

I find Ocaml very approporiate for almost all tasks ;)
Only for very short scripts (up to 100 lines) has Ruby
a clear competitive edge.