From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-26T03:37:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Relative speed of Ruby vs Java for a large compiled app like Freenet

On 9/25/05, Andreas Schwarz <usenet@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> seekingleverage@gmail.com schrieb:
> > I'm wondering if anyone could shed some light on whether or not it
> > would make sense to do a Freenet client in Ruby.

> > 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 is much faster. Search for "Language Shootout".

...and then ignore everything that you read on it, because the Alioth
shootout is garbage run by people who don't know what they're doing
and are dishonest (at least to themselves) about this fact.

-austin
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