From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-30T15:19:15+09:00
Subject: Re: R

Hi,

In message "Re: R"
    on 02/09/30, "Bulat Ziganshin" <bulatz@integ.ru> writes:

|main ruby speed problem - dynamic method dispatching, which don't
|needed for 99% of calls in low-level code (such as matrix
|multiplication or string searching). so static typing of all variables
|and methods must solve the problem
|
|anyone disagree with above?

I'm not sure.  From my simple benchmarks, method cache hit rate is
over 95%.  It suggests dynamic dispatch is not the main problem.

							matz.