From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T21:26:05+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

On 7/26/06, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:
> Jay Levitt wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:47:13 +0900, Peter Hickman wrote:
> >
> >
> >> In this post I want to clear some things up and provide benchmarks as to
> >> why you should take "Write it in C" seriously.

Something else to consider is the ease with which Ruby extensions can
be written in C. The first time I tried I has something running in 20
minutes.

Though if I was going to choose a (single) language for raw
performance I'd try to go with Pascal or Ada.


Les