From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-02T19:09:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question:read file speed

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:28:20AM +0900, Greg Brondo wrote:
> Why is ruby (on windows) so much slower at reading lines in a file (as
> compared to perl, python or java) ?  I've installed 1.8 preview 2 and it's
> much faster but still not nearly as fast as the other languages mentioned.

Can you post the exact programs that you are timing in each language?

Regards,

Brian.