From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T14:55:52+09:00
Subject: Re: looking at ruby...

Navindra Umanee ha scritto:
> 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.
> 

the benchmark shooutout from debian.org is even mostly useless :).
  You won't use a hand written mergesort since you have it built in. You 
won't do numerical stuff in pure ruby since you have NArray/gsl/R/IDL 
libraries for that. And obviously you won' usually use long recursive 
calculations.