From: Juergen Strobel <strobel@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T07:22:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as a kernel?

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:30:09PM +0900, Matthew Harris wrote:
> >I know a ruby kernel would be a desperate effort to continue the M$ poli=
cy
> >of making OSs make up for changes in computer speed and beat Moore, who
> >works for a competitor ( :P ) but
> >still, the advantages would be well worth it (depending on ruby being at=
=20
> >par
> >with Java regarding speed):
>=20
> The thing is... Java is normally 10/20 times faster than Ruby. I feel
> sick now that I think of that fact :P
> --=20
> Matt
>=20

Really? Can you cite hard numbers for this for real applications, or
is this just from artificial benchmarks? I've yet to see sanely
crafted Rails Web-DB based applications to be noticeable slower than
what I'd expect from Java, and that's with maybe 1/10th the memory
footprint (no hard numbers either...).

At least I've managed to run RoR on a P3-350/128MB machine (aside
other services) for a small user base without big problems, and I
probably can't even start tomcat there.

I feel quite good knowing that Ruby's speed is not a problem for the
kind of work it is supposed to do, and that Ruby does not need to play
the corporate game of benchmark BS.

J=FCrgen

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 The box said it requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux

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