From: Charles Oliver Nutter Date: 2007-01-01T06:29:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list) Robert Dober wrote: > I guess it is very reasonable what you are saying and yet I`d wish to have > a SmallRuby, something squeakish you see. First that might really make the > difference for both languages and secondly it might as well turn out to be > faster and more agile than YARV or JRuby (well JRuby for sure as the used > language is just faster - Smalltalk just fits better to Ruby than Java). You do know that Smalltalk, even in its fastest incarnations, is still slower than Java, right? And Squeak is far from being one of the fastest incarnations. -- Charles Oliver Nutter, JRuby Core Developer Blogging on Ruby and Java @ headius.blogspot.com Help spec out Ruby today! @ www.headius.com/rubyspec headius@headius.com -- charles.nutter@sun.com