From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-12-14T16:53:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby slow??

On Friday 13 December 2002 11:13 pm, Yohanes Santoso wrote:
> Slowness is an implementation issue, not to be confused with the
> language that is implemented.

only to a point. the implementation of a macro-assemblier will without 
question execute faster than, say, a prolog implementation, no matter how 
much one tries to make it otherwise.

this is mainly a matter of underlying hardware, and how far one is abstracting 
away from the silicon.

a hardwired Ruby CPU anyone? :)

> Ruby's memory consumption is modest. As long as you do not keep
> unnecessary references, it will stay modest. Please refer to
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?GCAndMemoryManagement

thanks, i will.

> > but surely there's room for improvment on both counts. i think
> > that's am important focus for future versions too.
>
> Such is also my hope that Matz&co. will keep improving the
> implementation (and of course, the language)

indeed i had hoped 1.8 would be much faster. but it dosen't sound like it will 
be. perhaps 2.0 then.

-transami