From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T00:52:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

Pretty much the same for me. If Ruby is not fast enough then I convert 
it to C, nothing less than C seems to have the performance if 
performance is an issue (ok in extreme cases there is assembler but 
nothing I have ever written *needed* to be written in assembler - 
besides it's not as much fun since the m68k went south). The pain of 
going from Ruby to Java is not going to realise the performance 
improvement of going from Ruby to C for, what appears to me to be, not 
quite as much pain.