From: Juergen Strobel <strobel@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T12:35:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:39:37AM +0900, Madan Manoharan wrote:
> On 5/22/06, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 5/22/06, Madan Manoharan <madan.manoharan@gmail.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.

That is *exactly* the *other* point. Rails has superior built in
caching that makes up for any perceived or true interpreter slowness.
Caching is not a workaround, it is the solution to a problem, already
solved for you by the rails team, and easily reuseable. 

If said web apps are faster than J2EE already, will your manager care
if the interpreter itself is slow? Will he even understand?

J�rgen

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