From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-23T06:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Bob Hutchison wrote:

> Ruby's focus is on something other than performance.

exactly.  write poetry in french - scream insults at hockey games in english.


> ---
>
> So what happens when speed is important and you've already optimised your 
> algorithms? These days you move out of Ruby. That's your only option. I thank 
> Zed for doing that with Mongrel -- it makes a big difference.
>
> Would a VM have helped? Sure. Sufficiently? I doubt it. Java is what, ten 
> times faster than Ruby? Lets say. Is that sufficient to actually solve the 
> problem?
>
> Not for a lot of the examples that come up.
>
> Definitely not for me.

my stance exactly.


nice summary btw.

-a
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