From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-04-18T10:23:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Need IO Optimization help

On Friday, 18 April 2003 at 10:09:10 +0900, Julian Snitow wrote:
> Michael Campbell wrote:
> > --- Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
> > 
> Well, for one thing, writing C extensions for ruby is remarkably easy 
> (not sure how perl compares in that regard).  And, for me, at least, the 
> ability to painlessly add low-level extensions when necessary translates 
> directly into a real-world performance benefit.
> 
> Of course, for benchmarking purposes, if you're writing C extensions in 
> ruby, it's only fair to do the same in perl...  and compare the final 
> results in terms of runtime, and programmer time... ;-)

Yes, don't forget that all important ROI benchmark. The
programmer/maintenance time for Perl will usually sink its benchmark.

-- 
Jim Freeze
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