From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T23:09:20+09:00
Subject: Re: question on bottleneck of ruby

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:20:04PM +0900, Clifford Heath wrote:
> Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> >Startup time does not general performance make. Just ask Java :)
> 
> Plus there is a large class of applications for which startup time
> dominates, otherwise we'd be writing /bin/cat in Java :-).

I second the motion.

For most of what I write in Ruby, startup time is *much* more important
than long-running performance.  I'd prefer to avoid having to go back to
Perl for some of that, to avoid extremely long waits (for some definition
of "extremely long") for basic sysadmin utilities.

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