From: benjohn@...
Date: 2006-05-23T00:07:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

*snip*
> So what is being done to get YARV the attention it deserves? Why
> aren't we talking about it all the time? What can I personally do to
> help? Are there valid excuses for not focusing on improving Ruby's
> poor computational performance?

There vertainly are perfectly good "excuses" (I didn't know I needed
one! :) ) for not focussing on Ruby's performance - it's performance is
only a concern for one (poor or otherwise) if it's actually causing one
a problem.

In my previous incarnation as a signal processing and volume rendering
coder, I imagine Ruby's performance would have been unnaceptable. In my
current role as a testing framework programmer, it's plenty fast thanks,
and jolly expressive. I've no reason (at the moment) to require more
performance from it. When I switch back to doing graphics again, I'll be
generating my c, c++ or assembly with Ruby anyway, rather than hand
coding it, and it'll probably be fast enough for that too.

All that said - I'll crack open a drink to Ruby's performance improving.
I just want to point out why it doesn't (pragmatically) matter to me
personally atm.

Cheers,
  Benjohn