From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-05-11T23:45:30+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby vs. java?


Glenn Parker said:
> Real numerical simulations (as opposed to toy projects) demand efficient
> use of hardware resources, and they do not benefit as much from the OO
> design style.  All this makes Ruby a poor choice, unless you are just
> playing around.

The Kali code project seems to be using Ruby to do dense stellar system
modeling.  Chapter 12 where they address speed issues is still incomplete,
but they talk about timing issues and C code libraries.  All in all, an
interesting read (I'm slowing working through it).

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