From: Eivind Eklund <eeklund@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T23:34:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Is ruby is faster than all Object oriented Scripting langs

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:23 AM, thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
>  This ignore's Moore's Law, and Java's success.  Microsoft as well is
>  going the VM route -- which has inherent overhead.

This is not entirely obvious.  I remember one case where HP got a
significant performance increase by emulating PA RISC *on PA RISC
hardware*, because they could do branch prediction etc better in real
time - with real data - than at compile time.

Eivind.