From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-01-06T01:35:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Is ruby's regex slower?

> But my point was a bit different.  Python and Ruby are basically similar 
> languages, and what annoys me is that there seems not to have been the 
> will in the Ruby community to steal some speed tricks from Python.  (I'd 
> be working on this if I knew anything practical about language 
> implementation, but I don't.)

Yeah no kidding.  Somehow speed just hasn't "felt" like the ruby 
community's thing, until 1.9 at least.

I am working on a few projects to make it faster [and I suppose the 
macruby, rubinius and jruby guys, are, as well].

> Unfortunately, I don't quite trust 1.9 for use with Rails yet...

Come to the dark side...

-r
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