From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T01:55:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

Peter Hickman wrote:
> [...] 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. [...]

Nice comment Peter!

My comments aren't "look, I cannot code a good program... blame ruby for 
its poor performance"

Ruby do his job, and do it well (as I said in the interview)

I work with special MPEG2 playback hardware, some of them analog only, 
others with digital interface (ASI-DVB)

Even that I like ruby, cannot use to interface that hardware, mostly 
because the quantity of computation needed in the results turns ruby in 
a slow, memory comsuming pig.

I don't say that YARV and later a JIT compiler will solve this, but will 
provide  better performance in general.

I came from a Python background, and ruby was "slow" compared to it 
(http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ruby&lang2=python)

But I when come to programing speed (or performance) Ruby wins.

> 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.

As another community member, I agree with you... thats why I keep 
working in Ruby :-)

Later,

Luis

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