From: "Michael T. Richter" Date: 2007-09-24T14:49:22+09:00 Subject: Re: This is why Ruby 1.8.6 can never be made to run anywhere near as fast as Python 2.5.1 --=-//p4wBwtwJwMuN5+jSlv Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-3JEfb81oFRPnf4pLNFbH" --=-3JEfb81oFRPnf4pLNFbH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-24-09 at 14:26 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > Can I ask why *ANYBODY* took a message by someone calling themselves > > "Ruby Maniac" and using expressions like "cute language" as anything bu= t > > a troll? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? > > Don't dignify these kinds of things with responses, peeps. > Well ... yes ... I suppose if I hadn't just run the benchmarks and > posted the results, I wouldn't have responded. But I am so thrilled to > see that 5X number for "YARV". Is there anyone here who thinks they can > get a 5X boost for Python 2.5? Perl 5.8.8? PHP 5? You're still playing into their game. You're reacting to the troll's input. If you want to share the good news about YARV performance, start your own breathless thread. Don't respond to a troll. ESPECIALLY don't quote the troll and do a point-by-point counter. That's exactly what they're looking for. Let me give you a little secret: the troll knows all your countering arguments. In another forum, under a different name, the troll is using those very same arguments to tweak the noses of other people and make them "dance to his strings". The only winning move, as the old movie goes, is not to play the game. --=20 Michael T. Richter (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com) When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. (Richard Pattis) --=-3JEfb81oFRPnf4pLNFbH Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-24-09 at 14:26 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: 
> Can I ask why *ANYBODY* took a message by some=
one calling themselves
> "Ruby Maniac" and using expressions =
like "cute language" as anything but
> a troll?  Anybody?  Anybody?  Bueller?


> Don't dignify these kinds of things with respo=
nses, peeps.


Well ... yes ... I suppose if I hadn't just run the=
 benchmarks and
posted the results, I wouldn't have responded. But =
I am so thrilled to
see that 5X number for "YARV". Is there a=
nyone here who thinks they can
get a 5X boost for Python 2.5? Perl 5.8.8? PHP 5?
You're still playing into their game.  You're reacting to the troll's = input.  If you want to share the good news about YARV performance, sta= rt your own breathless thread.  Don't respond to a troll.  ESPECI= ALLY don't quote the troll and do a point-by-point counter.  That's ex= actly what they're looking for.

Let me give you a little secret: the troll knows all your countering argume= nts.  In another forum, under a different name, the troll is using tho= se very same arguments to tweak the noses of other people and make them &qu= ot;dance to his strings".  The only winning move, as the old movi= e goes, is not to play the game.

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Michael T. Richter <ttmri= chter@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com)
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective= code. (Richard Pattis)
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