From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T07:33:57+09:00
Subject: Re: looking at ruby...

David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> > So you're saying the common truth is that Ruby is fast enough, but only if 
> > you don't use Ruby but instead C?
> >
> > I think it discourages the community from focusing on things like bytecode,
> 
> Don't worry -- plenty of people are focusing on things like bytecode
> :-)

Can you give more pointers on this?  Any nice blogs of the ongoing
efforts to speed up Ruby and the success so far?  The benchmark
shootout on debian.org is somewhat worrying.

Thanks,
Navin.