From: pharrington <xenogenesis@...>
Date: 2009-08-20T15:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Confirm my Performance Test Against Java?

On Aug 20, 1:16 am, Ben Christensen <benjchristen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Matthew K. Williams
>
> -- 1. How *often* are you going to be processing these files?  If they
> are
> -- batch style jobs, then does absolute speed matter over
> maintainability?
>
> The particular application I'm looking at in the future has a virtually
> continuous feed of incoming data from multiple concurrent sources.
>
> Thus I'm looking at what language the processing code would be in. My
> default go to is Java - but I want to consider Ruby and not blindly just
> use what I'm accustomed to before establishing what will likely be in
> existence for the next 3-5 years.

OK, speed and excellent concurrency handling (non-JRuby Ruby strikes
out across the board on the second aspect unfortunately) really is
your priority then. May I then ask what made you consider Ruby in the
first place? Something along the lines of Scala (runs on the JVM,
*relatively* mature, *fantastic* concurrency support, works well with
functional and imperative/object oriented styles) or Erlang (SMP
almost for free, but *almost* strictly immutable and functional coding
(which is much more of a learning curve than a negative)) would make a
ton more sense here.