From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T14:24:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

Peter Hickman wrote:
> The problem is that Zed and Luis make out that performance is something 
> that the whole Ruby community is deliberately ignoring. This is not the 
> case, there are plenty of people who have no issue with the performance 
> of Ruby. The truth is the performance is an issue for Zed and Luis and 
> they are trying to make out that it is not their personal bugbear but 
> some sort of conspiracy so they don't look like whiners. I have never 
> though "damn Ruby's dismal performance, it should be able to do this 
> faster" and I probably never will.
> 
> Yes we wouldn't say no to better performance but we (the Ruby community) 
> are not being held back by the current level of performance.

Precisely. I'm not pretending there's no elephant in the room. My room
actually has no elephant in it. If yours does, well, my sympathies.

Hal