From: Julian Leviston Date: 2008-04-02T16:25:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Is ruby is faster than all Object oriented Scripting lan Bugger that! You gotta encode using boards of switches... pure binary man... none of this assembler junk. :P Julian. Learn Ruby on Rails! CHECK OUT THE FREE VIDS (LIMITED TIME) NEW VIDEO (#2) OUT 3rd APRIL http://sensei.zenunit.com/ On 02/04/2008, at 6:20 PM, William James wrote: > On Apr 1, 5:39 pm, Marc Heiler wrote: > >> It never ceases to amaze me how people put speed of "scripting" >> languages into the center of attraction - one should go with lua if >> speed is such a concern. >> >> Or maybe pure C if it needs to be faster! > > Pascal (FreePascal). > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all >