From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2005-08-11T23:32:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Performance Ruby Hello Goel, G> A friend is thinking to use it at his work too (standalone), but must know G> some things about the performance before he is going to use it; hence my G> (wrong) question. So the answer is it maybe 200 times slower (for example a pure ruby implementation of zip/gzip) or it might be only 5 times slower as C when you call a lot of C buildin's or a C library wrapper. Does this really help ? I guess not. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's