From: MJ Ray <markj+comp.lang.ruby@...>
Date: 2001-05-09T10:10:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14886] Re: Ruby and Web Applications

Todd Gillespie <toddg@linux127.ma.utexas.edu> writes:

> Where is a 10x improvement going to come from?

You're missing the overheads from the compilation and lack of caching.
An app server app only has to be loaded once, rather than
reinterpreted each time the page is executed, and it can cache the
results of the intermediate stages.

Although embedded scripting can work around these, it usually doesn't.
If it's built into the framework of a good app server, you get them
every time.

I have been interested to read of a few "hybrids" of these ideas
recently, though, and I'll wait and see what comes out.
-- 
MJR