From: Aleksei Guzev Date: 2002-12-05T19:33:38+09:00 Subject: Re: speeding up ... "Mark Probert" wrote in message news:5.1.0.14.2.20021204171209.020808e8@zcard04k.ca.nortel.com... > What are You measuring Ruby's speed for? Are You serious intending use of Ruby for such tasks as processing images in real time? I see Ruby being a perfect language to build sophisticated programs of simple but quick blocks of native code.