From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T23:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: question on bottleneck of ruby

Chad Perrin wrote:
> 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.

I third it. I don't like the slow startup time of JRuby any more than 
you all would. We'll do what we can to fix that.

- Charlie