From: Madan Manoharan Date: 2006-05-23T00:25:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance On 5/22/06, benjohn@fysh.org wrote: > I just want to point out why it doesn't (pragmatically) matter to me > personally atm. > Unfortunately, not all of us are in your boat. I really like Ruby, but if performance improvement is not going to be in Ruby's near future, my management is not going to buy into Ruby! In most of the corporate environments I have worked in, many managers tend to take IT decisions based on 'feelings'; 'speed' is a word that creates good 'feelings'. So, when the issue of performance is bought up, Ruby doesn't win (doesn't matter if the application requires it or not). IMO, if Ruby's vision is to penetrate the corporate environment, Ruby should address its performance issues among other things (e.g. support for apps -- Ruby on Rails). -Madan.