From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T02:35:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Been there, done that - language shootout


Peter Hickman wrote:
> Isaac Gouy wrote:
> > The OP seems surprised by the order of magnitude differences between
> > Ruby and C performance - if he looked at regex-dna on the Computer
> > Language Shootout he might be surprised that the Ruby program is
> > relatively fast.
> >
> Come on. I would hardly be telling people to write something in C if I
> thought that the improvement would only be few percentage points. It was
> no surprise to me that C was faster than Ruby, neither was it a surprise
> as to how much of an improvement it was...

You're right - I was completely wrong to say you were surprised.

Did you think others would be surprised?
You seemed to think they were overlooking the "the degree of speed up"
- why would you think that?