From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-05-23T12:01:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance On 5/22/06, Peter Hickman wrote: > One question I have to ask is "Wouldn't it make more sense to piggy back > on parrot (the Perl v6) engine?" and get all the benefit of the > performance improvements that parrot will pick up and the fact that > there are many, many very clever people working on parrot whose work we > could make use of. Are there? Parrot has always seemed like a dead Parrot, to me, with far too much trying to be done in too poorly a way. > Is there a reason why we are reinventing the wheel? Yes. Ask ko1 and matz why for specifics, but essentially Ruby is more dynamic than other VMs expect it to be. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca