From: Lui Kore Date: 2009-09-03T20:21:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Comparison Ruby, Python, Php, Groovy ecc. It's unfair, result of this program can be determined at compile time, the haskell one would be fastest ( if there is one :) JVM makes plenty of optimizations before it runs program, while starts very slow. Scripts are faster if startup time is taken into consideration. btw, Ruby doesn't have a "char" type, doing a "char" print is of course much slower... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.