From: Dennis Newbold <dennisn@...>
Date: 2002-04-08T09:20:59+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby speed?


On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> 
> This isn't unexpected; speed isn't Ruby's main target.  However, if
> speed is a requirement, Ruby's C API kicks crap out of Perl.
> 
    I guess I'm kind of intermediate level, but I'm not sure I understand
what you mean by "Ruby's C API".  Are you talking about the services
documented in the README.EXT file which are used in writing Ruby
extensions in C?  Or is this something new, that I'm unaware of?
Thanks for the info.

Dennis