From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-09-15T22:47:12+09:00
Subject: Re: performance and style advice requested

Robert Feldt wrote:

> While I doubt you should compare these languages on performance merits
> and sincerely hope this post is not a subtle troll post...

I think Alex's reputation in the Python community more than speaks for 
the fact that he's *not* a troll. This is a very reasonable question 
about Python versus Ruby performance.