From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-09-26T00:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Relative speed of Ruby vs Java for a large compiled app like Freenet

Excerpts from seekingleverage@gmail.com's mail of 25 Sep 2005 (CDT):
> Obviously, from an elegent code standpoint, Ruby is probably more
> manageable and in general a better all round experience.
> 
> What I'm curious about though, is the execution speed of compiled Ruby
> code vs Java running on the virtual machine.

Java will probably be faster. But programming Java is known by the State
of California to rot your brain.

Probably the best idea for this type of thing is to write a base Freenet
library in C (if one doesn't exist already!), and do the higher-level
behavior in Ruby. As long as you're smart about how you divide things,
you can have the best of both worlds: the speed of C and the
maintainability of Ruby.

-- 
William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>