From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-24T22:01:16+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

William James wrote:
> On Sep 23, 9:50 pm, Ruby Maniac <raych...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ruby is a cute language that may someday become useful
> 
> Someday when you are a more experienced programmer, you
> may realize that doing bitwise operations on each byte
> of a 2-megabyte file is not an appropriate task for a
> "scripting language".  That calls for a lower-level language.

Well ... if the bitwise operations are built into the "scripting
language", why *shouldn't* they be used? It's not like you have to make
them up by converting the bytes to floating point values, converting
them to an array of floating point ones and zeroes and doing ANDs and
ORs on them with floating point equality tests in IF statements!