From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2005-06-22T13:33:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Runtime vs Development Hello gwtmp01, gmc> So Ruby is 10 times slower than some-other-language but gmc> you've got $70,000 more in your pocket when your done. gmc> Moral: Hardware is cheap, people aren't. You forgot the cost of maintaining 50 dedicated systems also energy resources and other things. Also it is not sure that it scales well - easy for web applications but maybe difficult to impossible for other application domains. Moral: We need a faster language implementation. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's