From: Ruben Vandeginste <Ruben.Vandeginste@...>
Date: 2003-04-11T19:49:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Need IO Optimization help


> > Even if there are no improvements possible you should judge the effort of
> > improving speed of ruby vs. perl or others agains the effort to maintain a
> > changed ruby and the efforts saved by rubys higher development speed.  For
> > some script it's surely more efficient to write it in one hour and have it
> > run in another than to tweak a high performance perl script in four hours
> > that then runs in 15 minutes.
>
>  For new scripts what you say is true. But I can't accept the fact
>  that there are no improvements possible. And Ruby has no advantage
>  when the Perl scripts already exist and are not being changed.
>
I think this really depends on the scripts, what they do and what they're
used for. If you have to run your script very frequently and depend on its
output, then 15 minutes or an hour running time is really a big
difference. If you use these scripts all the time, then it's worth
spending a couple extra hours on its implementation/optimization.

Ruben