From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T05:21:49+09:00
Subject: RE: Why is Ruby so slow?

Kent Dahl wrote:
>
> Venherm Borchers wrote:
> >
> > WHY IS RUBY SO SLOW?
>
> Please see the "file reading impossibly slow?" thread.
>
>  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/35367
>

The thread you referenced above said that this problem is fixed in 1.7, but
Venherm provided a 1.7.2 test which showed it to be nearly as slow as the
other versions of Ruby.

If Venherm's numbers are correct, it looks like there is still a problem
here.

Curt