From: Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T01:48:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible

Your misrepresentations of my position and attacks on me are unbecoming.


Jamal

--Original Message--
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:36 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible


Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> In answer to the multiple messages recommending that I learn C or
> Assembler as the solution for performance, it appears that you did not
> read my lips:  I want to use Ruby, not a typically tedious, often
> verbose, yet also cryptic strongly-typed language! 

Fine, use Ruby. But if performance is critical then you will be 
disappointed. You have been warned but you are clearly not prepared to 
listen.

>  I have read
> tutorials on such languages before and found their nature to be
counter
> to my desire for rapid application development. 
What happened to your desire for performance. Is this now secondary to 
laziness?
>  I understand that no
> single language is superior in all criteria, and that trade-offs exist
> between ease of development and speed of execution.
The you will just have to accept the trade off between ease of 
development and performance. If you really really really want 
performance then write it in C.
> The trend in universities, by the way, is away from teaching native C.
> Instead, Java and C# for the .NET platform are taking over.  That
argues
> against learning C specifically to compensate for Ruby's weakness.  If
I
> were to invest in the hundreds of hours to become facile in a strongly
> typed language, C# would be the one most likely to benefit my
> productivity and career.  (As much as I like Ruby, it is a means to an
> end for me, not an end in itself.)
>   
I find it hard to understand how someone can call themselves a 
programmer and then claim that learning C is too difficult. It's not as 
easy to use as Ruby, but it could hardly be called difficult. Being a 
programmer, for me, is being in a constant state of learning. Perhaps 
for some it is just a 9 to 5.
> Jamal
>
>
>