From: Chris Thomas <chris@...>
Date: 2002-12-14T13:55:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby slow??


On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 03:11  PM, Matt Armstrong wrote:

> Threads are pretty slow in Ruby because of the way they
> are implemented (each thread switch involves a large memcpy() of the
> stack).

Good lord, is that true? Shades of MultiFinder.

It's interesting that the fastest implementations listed on that 
shootout page are also non-native.

Chris