From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T07:13:56+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:16:25AM +0900, Ashley Moran wrote:
> 
> I have yet to write anything in Ruby was less than twice as fast to  
> code as it would have been in bourne-sh/Java/whatever, never mind  
> twice as fun or maintainable.  I recently rewrote an 830 line Java/ 
> Hibernate web service client as 67 lines of Ruby, in about an hour.   
> With that kind of productivity, performance can go to hell!

With a 92% cut in code weight, I can certainly sympathize with that
sentiment.  Wow.

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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
"There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary
to shoot the engineers and begin production." - MacUser, November 1990