From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-05-09T11:12:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14888] Re: Ruby on AIX? (speed issue followup)

----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:32 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:14871] Re: Ruby on AIX? (speed issue followup)


>
> By the way, for people complaining about the speed of Ruby, I'd like to
point
> out that "fast" is relative.  The original shell script ran in 3.8 minutes
on
> my Linux box.  After a bit of optimizing, the Ruby version ran in 9
seconds.
> After refactoring a critical algorithm, the Ruby version ran in 0.7
seconds.
>

Certainly. Assembly language is blindingly fast, but it is still possible to
write very slow programs.

Algorithms matter, and they always will.

Hal