From: Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>
Date: 2012-09-19T17:36:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby - is it worth the effort?

On 19 September 2012 09:24, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org> wrote:
>> That being said, I won't write number crunching algorithms in Ruby, or work
>> with gigabyte-sized datasets.
>
> Well, even that depends.  Sifting through logfiles of that volume is
> almost certainly IO bound and the processing speed can be negligible.
> That of course depends on the processing.

Being a Ruby shop we try to use Ruby everywhere but when it does come
to grinding through logfiles (some several gigs in size) we had to go
with Perl. The string processing and regex matching was so much
faster. We couldn't get Ruby even close :( Speed was essential, we
couldn't just sit around and wait for the process to complete.

Right tools for the job I guess. Ruby is fine for everything else so
switching it all over to Perl would not really gain us anything.
Besides if you are a programmer knowing more than one language is a
must.