From: Ola Bini <ola.bini@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T05:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 3, Source code now available

Charles O Nutter wrote:
> On 8/1/06, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
>>
>> While I certainly appreciate the efforts that are going into this, I
>> can't help feeling it's all completely irrelevant.
> 
> 
> My only purpose in battling these benchmarks is to help dispel the rumors
> that "Java is slow," "VMs are slow," and so on. If Ruby does move to a real
> optimizing VM, it will be a good thing...all those folks who continue to
> think that VMs are inherently bad need to join the 21st century.
> 

... Which is extremely funny, since Common Lisp have had wicked fast 
virtual machines for the last 15 years (on par with C in performance).

They should catch up with the 20th century first of all. =)


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