From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T14:20:04+09:00
Subject: Re: question on bottleneck of ruby

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Startup time does not general performance make. Just ask Java :)

True, but lack of memory pressure enables you to keep the whole
working set in memory, and that does affect runtime.

Plus there is a large class of applications for which startup time
dominates, otherwise we'd be writing /bin/cat in Java :-).

Clifford Heath.