From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T22:17:52+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-gnome2 performance

Matthew Harris wrote:
> Ruby has a very slow startup time. There's nothing to deny there. I
> wouldn't blame the bindings, but yes, I would blame Ruby.
(flori@lambda:src 0)$ time ruby -e1 ; time perl -e1 ; time python -c1 ;
time java Foo

real    0m0.005s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.000s

real    0m0.005s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.004s

real    0m0.021s
user    0m0.016s
sys     0m0.000s

real    0m0.108s
user    0m0.040s
sys     0m0.004s

Yes, very slow startup time.

BTW: I don't have any speed problems with ruby-gnome2 unlike the OP.
It's unlikely, that they are related to Ruby's execution speed in any
way, because they are written mostly in C.
> Still, we all love Ruby anyways, and eagerly wait Ruby 2.
...

Florian