From: Louis-Philippe Date: 2010-11-09T03:18:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Perofrmance --0016e659fd14a9bfac04948ea771 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable One could even say even 1.8 wasn't that bad. Made a benchmark last month which had 1.8.7 as participant, and it shows ruby has some speed edge in it= s fast load time. If some would like to see the bench: http://www.untilnil.com/2010/10/recursivefibbenchcontinued/ 2010/11/8 Ammar Ali > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Phillip Gawlowski > wrote: > > 2010/11/7 J=F6rg W Mittag > >: > >> Ruby Me wrote: > >>> Why people say that Ruby is a slow language? > >> > >> Because they don't understand the difference between a programming > >> language and a compiler. > > > > Or because they are stuck in the "CPU time is expensive!" mindset. ;) > > Or simply because they are parroting what they heard years ago, > without taking the time to check for themselves. > > Regards, > Ammar > > --0016e659fd14a9bfac04948ea771--