From: Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T01:56:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

With respect, I do not agree with the argument that one should use an
external language to get speed in Ruby.  I do not know C and have no
desire to learn it. I program in Ruby partly to avoid the low level
details that C programming demands.  

For the most part my Ruby programs are fast enough, but there are
noticeable slow points that cannot simply be solved by a better
algorithm.  From my reading, it seems that Python is the main competitor
to Ruby at this time.  I prefer the syntax of Ruby, but the performance
of Python is a significant point in its favor.  The more that Ruby can
eliminate this gap, the better it will fare in competition, adoption,
and third party support--in my opinion..

Regards,
Jamal