From: Roger Pack <lists@...>
Date: 2012-09-19T21:40:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby - is it worth the effort?

> 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.

https://github.com/michaeledgar/ruby-boost-regex
might be useful, if it ends up being regex's that are the slowdown :)
-r

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