From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T00:24:03+09:00
Subject: Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible

We all want Ruby to be faster but if the speed at which your application 
runs at is your priority then I'm afraid that Ruby is not good enough. 
Neither is Python, Perl, Java or any other language. In extremis even C 
isn't good enough and only assembler will do.

Please do not sell Ruby as the Golden Hammer that can do anything better 
than any other language, it quite clearly cannot do that. You will do 
Ruby a disservice and people will question your ability to make a sound 
technical judgement.

Of course there are many things that you can do to make a Ruby program 
faster, like writing better code :-)

A programming language is simply a tool and not everything is a nail.