From: Dan Sugalski <dan@...>
Date: 2002-12-18T01:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Speedy Ruby (was: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby)

At 12:41 AM +0900 12/18/02, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
>Mark Probert wrote:
>>
>>Hi, Dan.
>>
>>At 05:59 AM 12/17/2002 +0900, Dan wrote:
>>
>>>Ruby execution could, with the appropriate amount of concentrated 
>>>programmer talent thrown at it, see speedups of an order of 
>>>magnitude, perhaps two in some cases. This is a *very* non-trivial 
>>>thing to do,
>
>Well, I've managed to get 80%-200% speedup by just simply running my 
>code via profile and rbprof and see which are the "hot" methods.
>
>After which I just simply rewrite them in 'C' using Ruby's excellent API.
>
>You don't need to have "concentrated programmer talent" to achieve this ;-)

Unless you got ruby to generate the C code automatically from your 
ruby source, you're not dealing with what I was talking about.
-- 
                                         Dan

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