From: christopher.j.meisenzahl@...
Date: 2002-11-21T21:48:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is too slow

Agreed,

I wouldn't attempt this kind of work in Python, Perl, or  a shell script either.

But by the same token, I wouldn't want to do all my text processing jobs in C 
or ASM.  :-)

 
 
Christopher J. Meisenzahl CPS, CSTE
Senior Software Testing Consultant
Spherion
christopher.j.meisenzahl@citicorp.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: bulatz [mailto:bulatz@integ.ru] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:33 AM
> To: ruby-talk
> Cc: bulatz
> 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 the 
> M> handling of numbers? Is there overhead calling yield for 
> every pixel? 
> M> 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
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru
> 
> 
>