From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T14:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

James Britt wrote:
> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> 
>> ... you make good points - but let me just throw in my 2 cts:
>>
>> virtual machines are stupid.  java is slow.  c++ is slow.  python is 
>> slow.
>> ruby is slow.  so what.  if you want fast you need c or fortan or 
>> assembler.
> 
> 
> 
> Ara, do you not see value in a Ruby VM, or is just that speed is not, in 
> itself, a justification for a VM?
> 
> (The speed-related advantage to a VM is that it does not require one to 
> know C, etc.,  or have a compiler for all target platforms.  Maybe not 
> as fast as tight compiled C, but also not as much trouble.  It's a trade.)

I thought he was saying it's not that significant a speed increase.

I agree with you, if I understand you. Blazing speed requires C or
some such. If you just want overall reasonable speed, a VM is OK;
it gives you some speed without needing C.


Hal