From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2006-07-16T22:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible

On 2006-07-14, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:

> The real point is: Speed is only a problem if you think it is.

Matz thinks it is.  He's said so elsewhere in this thread.

> I've used Ruby for more than six years, and have never had a
> problem with speed.

It's good that you have not had this problem.

> What annoys me is people getting in my face and saying that
> I'm "ignoring the problem." I'm not. 

If someone asks "this Ruby script is too slow for my purposes, how can
it be faster" and is only told "write it in C", I think they can
reasonably say that *their* problem is being ignored.

> Some people find Ruby "unusable" because of its speed. Those
> people should use something else until Ruby is fast enough.
> (And/or they should contribute to making Ruby faster.)

Which is why I asked if YARV is the way to go.  If I knew that I could
see if I could help.  But (/me sighs) nobody answered that.  Anyway
I've just downloaded and benchmarked YARV and it's very impressive.
Many times faster on most benchmarks, merely comparable on a few.

If anyone has tips on helping YARV, I'm all ears.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty