From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T17:48:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Benchmark Mono - Ruby

On Feb 7, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Ville Mattila wrote:
>     No, you can choose whatever is most suitable for your needs. I 
> just say
>     that you shouldn't be surprised that interpreted language cannot 
> compete
>     with bytecode language. It's meanigfull to complaint that ruby is 
> slower
>     than python or perl... Good expample about this is the recent CSV 
> thread.

just a technical correction, python at the
very least is already bytecode based. it just
doesn't have a very fast / jitt'ing vm.

Alex