From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T05:04:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby faster than Python???

On Dec 23, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is
> that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special
> cases?

I'm sure you could find special cases to favor either, but in general  
I would expect just the opposite.  Python's got quite a few clever  
optimizations (as I understand it), and Ruby is known to have a few  
speed issues.

> The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl :-)

Definitely, yes.  In my experience, Perl is quite a bit zippier for  
many operations.

There's a reason we're all excited about YARV...  ;)

James Edward Gray II