From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T14:33:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Relative speed of Ruby vs Java for a large compiled app like Freenet

Excerpts from Patrick Hurley's mail of 26 Sep 2005 (CDT):
> Write the whole thing in Ruby (or whatever language you find most
> productive). Test it (and write test cases), verify its correctness.
> Then _if_ it is too slow profile it, locating the bottlenecks. Last
> step is then to speed up that small portion of critical path code
> (located by profiling, not guessing) and optimize the algorithm and/or
> the implementation (possibly rewriting a portion in C).

Yeah, this is probably the best idea for from-scratch applications. I
was thinking library because I figured either there was a Freenet
library out there, or there should be. A good linkable library would be
useful to everyone.

-- 
William <wmorgan@masanjin.net>