From: jm <jm5379@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T01:00:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance

TIMTOWTDI - there is more than one way to do it


On 8/12/05, Brock Weaver <brockweaver@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not much of a Perl guy, so I don't know what TIMTOWTDI stands for.
> 
> This Is My T... O... Way To Do It?
> 
> Help a brother out :-)
> 
> 
> Also, somebody mentioned slashdot -- does this mean we should bring up Nazis
> too so we can kill the thread?
> 
> I'm sorry, I'm a little caffiened up today.
> 
> I do have a valid comment though: I was running ruby from a USB stick, and
> it was horribly slow (2-3 minutes to run "ruby -v"). Installing onto my 2nd
> logical partition (D:) helped, but it was still about 30 seconds to do the
> same version check. Installing onto C: -- same physical drive as D: -- made
> "ruby -v" practically instantaneous.
> 
> Unfortunately, yes I have Windows, so I'm sure that makes a difference.
> 
> 
> On 8/12/05, Adrian Howard <adrianh@quietstars.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 12 Aug 2005, at 16:23, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Perl <-> Ruby:
> > > Perl is so ugly and difficult i don't want to compare it with ruby.
> > > I doubt that it is possible to develop huge Perl programs where you
> > > have a changing team of different programmers working on the same
> > > code.
> > [snip]
> >
> > As somebody who does this on a regular basis I'd have to disagree :-)
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Brock Weaver
> http://www.circaware.com
> 
>