From: Nathan Ahmed <elihu5991@...>
Date: 2012-08-16T22:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: case vs if-else

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What is with Ruby being slow?

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Jan E. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Dude, does it really matter if one variant is some microseconds faster
> than the other? Ruby is so slow by itself that this kind of
> nanobenchmarking is just insane.
>
> If you want speed, use C (or even assembler). Ruby is the completely
> wrong language for this.
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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What is with Ruby being slow?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Jan E. <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lists@ruby-forum.com" target="_blank">lists@ruby-forum.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dude, does it really matter if one variant is some microseconds faster<br>
than the other? Ruby is so slow by itself that this kind of<br>
nanobenchmarking is just insane.<br>
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If you want speed, use C (or even assembler). Ruby is the completely<br>
wrong language for this.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
--<br>
Posted via <a href="http://www.ruby-forum.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ruby-forum.com/</a>.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>

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