From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-07-04T04:20:43+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby performance


On Jul 3, 2012, at 05:41 , Dan Connelly wrote:

> 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.

If you pretend that this thread is full of scientific study or engineering decisions, then it is you who are involved in the religious discussion. The code/numbers being bandied about here are neither rigorous, nor informative, nor pertinent to the OP's actual needs.