From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T01:32:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

The problem is that Zed and Luis make out that performance is something 
that the whole Ruby community is deliberately ignoring. This is not the 
case, there are plenty of people who have no issue with the performance 
of Ruby. The truth is the performance is an issue for Zed and Luis and 
they are trying to make out that it is not their personal bugbear but 
some sort of conspiracy so they don't look like whiners. I have never 
though "damn Ruby's dismal performance, it should be able to do this 
faster" and I probably never will.

Yes we wouldn't say no to better performance but we (the Ruby community) 
are not being held back by the current level of performance.