From: Madan Manoharan <madan.manoharan@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T03:39:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

On 5/22/06, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/22/06, Madan Manoharan <madan.manoharan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/22/06, Kirk Haines <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
> > >
>
> Read what Zed said about Rails app performance though.  Even though
> Ruby can be slow, he said that with its built in caching, Rails apps are often
> faster than Java Web apps.
>
>

Pat, that is exactly the point: Ruby is slow; so you have to create
work arounds! Not something I would like to hear, if I were evaluating
a language.

We need a version of Ruby that is *comparable* in execution speed to
Python or Java. If it is YARV, then let us roll it out fast (no pun
intended)

-Madan.