From: Bira <u.alberton@...>
Date: 2006-09-14T01:00:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programmingr

On 9/13/06, Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And if you take it back into the context of this thread, and some
> of the arguments that were raised here, dropping down to C
> pisses all over your developer cycles and makes a load of its
> own problems too, especially if you really need platform
> independence or don't have the staff who are confident to write
> the C stuff.

As I've said before "For Performance, write it in C" is merely the
thread's title. What actually went on in there is that a lot of people
disagreed rather strongly with this proposal and presented several
alternatives that presented satisfactory performance both in Ruby an
in other languages (the Ocaml example comes to mind as being faster
than the C one for a specific test case).

When I say that you should read that thread, it's not because I want
to convince you to "write it in C for performance". I don't. I'm just
pointing out that an extensive discussion on Ruby's performance and
what is being done to improve it has already taken place. If it's
something you're really interested in, you should look at it, since it
contains many good messages from both sides of the issue.

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