From: Ben Johnson <bjohnson@...>
Date: 2006-07-17T01:24:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible

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> On Jul 16, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Alexandru Popescu wrote

> I would say that in the world I am come from, or maybe in an ideal
> world I would say:
> - have you identified which parts are slow for you? I mean what is
> performing bad from your business perspective?
> - if not, than I would ask how can I figure out which parts are the
> slowest for the scenarios I want more speed
> - if yes, I would point my finger to the problem and ask if there is
> any knowledge on how to speed up those fragment. If not, than what
> alternatives I can take.


I did some profiling on my code and the real bottle neck is using the  
Net::HTTP library. I'm using it to grab HTML from a website. Our  
server is located in Boston and after doing a digg I came to found  
out the server we are communicating with is located in LA. I realize  
the communication between the 2 servers is something I can not speed  
up, as our server is in a very nice data center with 6 T3s. But I  
would still like to speed up Ruby as much as possible. Am I wrong here?

Lastly, I read in another thread that the Net::HTTP library was  
actually slow and using something like curl is faster. Is this correct?

Anyways, going back to my original post. I am new to ruby and I just  
wanted to make sure that I was getting the most out of it. I was  
uncertain if ruby had a configuration file or any kind of  
configuration that would keep it from using ALL of your computer's  
resources.

Thanks for the help.

Thank You,
Ben Johnson
E: bjohnson@contuitive.com





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