From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-07-15T02:37:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible

On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Jeff Pritchard wrote:
> Peter Hickman wrote:
>> I also rewrite all my performance critical code in C, that is the  
>> whole
>> application gets rewritten in C once I have used Ruby to prototype  
>> the
>> code.
>
> I found your last paragraph intresting.  Can you give us some ballpark
> comparisons between a profiled/selectively C extensionized app and a
> completely re-written one?  I would think it would be almost as
> effective to render all of the significant bottlenecks in C and leave
> the rest in ruby.  Have you seen significant speed improvements by
> taking this last step of replacing the whole thing with C?

http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2005/04/space_vs_time.html

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