From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-01-06T23:15:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Is ruby's regex slower?

On 01/05/2010 05:32 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> 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.)

Well, 1.9 *has been* improved dramatically in the area of performance 
(among others).  Whether this is because of "tricks stolen from Python" 
I cannot judge.  Your statement seems to imply that the Ruby community 
is negligent of performance which is not true.

Kind regards

	robert

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