From: Dan Connelly <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-03T21:41:49+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby performance

Jan E. wrote in post #1067169:
> Ryan Davis wrote in post #1067161:
>> Third... WHO CARES?!?!? This is all bullshit comparisons for bullshit
>> reasons.


This sounds like a religious discussion.

I write code which does non-trivial calculations I'd prefer to run 
faster.  I also want it to be easier to run and maintain.  If there was 
really a factor of two difference between Ruby and Perl, that would be 
an issue: it would bias me towards Perl.  And if one type of loop were 
really much faster than another, I'd tend to want to use that loop.

It's not speed over everything else.  But speed is a good thing to know 
about.  Engineering decisions are all about trade-offs.

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