From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T05:54:10+09:00
Subject: Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible

Bill Kelly wrote:

>> There would be even more applications ruby would be fast
>> enough for if ruby would just be a little bit faster.
> 
> Yes... but the reason I stated it in terms of limits,
> was to show that what you're saying will always be true.

Agreed.

>> I don't get the problem with someone who wishes ruby to
>> be even better (yes, that means faster this time, performance
>> is one quality of software, along with a lot of others)
>> than it already is.
> 
> I don't see a problem with wishing ruby were better or
> faster, either.  Believe me... I do an awful lot of
> wishing that I could write a whole 3D game in ruby.
> I'm wishing that most every day...

I just don't like if someone gets lapidated for saying so.

> But in practical terms, there will almost certainly
> always be some set of applications too demanding to
> be written in 100% ruby.

True, no one was questioning that.

Let's write some code, I'm better writing ruby than doing
smalltalk (erm, well you know what i mean)

cheers

Simon