From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-06-29T02:00:42+09:00
Subject: Re: I saw the beauty of Ruby Re: 1. Ruby result: 101 seconds , 2. Java result:9.8 seconds, 3. Perl result:62 seconds

Brad Wilson wrote:
> I agree with this.
Ditto.

> I also subscribe to the YAGNI performance
> principal: there are whole classes of problems for which computational
> performance is of minimal impact. For instance, imagine an n-tier
> architecture web application with separated web servers and database
> servers. The time spent talking to the database over the network
> dwarfs the nanoseconds of "loss" in using an interpreted language.

And one more simplistic example, tcp-request-reply

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=tcprequest&lang=all&sort=fullcpu#bench