From: Robert Dober Date: 2008-05-08T23:32:26+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby has to be interpreted line by line in runtime, does this affect Ruby's execution efficiency badly? On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Vidar Hokstad wrote: > On May 8, 1:27 pm, Ron Fox wrote: > > Ruby _is_ particularly bad in this respect though. Unfortunately a lot > of this > is tied to what makes Ruby pleasant to use. I am not that sure about this, maybe we might call Ruby challenging rather than bad and we will see Ruby implementations being quite fast in the next of couple of years, I am quite confident that YARV and JRuby will be quite fast but I do not count out the other implementations as Rubinus or Iron Ruby... Only time will tell however ;) Robert -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ --- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein