From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-11-21T15:32:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is too slow

Hello MetalOne,

Thursday, November 21, 2002, 9:14:27 AM, you wrote:
M> I like Ruby, but it needs to be significantly faster. Anybody know
M> the main reason why Ruby is so much slower in this example. Is it
M> the handling of numbers? Is there overhead calling yield for every
M> pixel? Is the array lookup not O(1)?

it is because ruby interpreted language, while java and c++ are
compiled to machine code. this sort of tasks definitely not for ruby

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