From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-10-01T07:19:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on ARTIMA

In article <0omeb.3608$qK1.3702438@news2.news.adelphia.net>,
Bob X <bobx@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>From the talkback:
>
>"Ruby is over 10 years old, very popular in Japan, gaining popularity in
>other parts of the world, have thousands of users and hundreds of hackers.
>However, the implementation (Ruby has only 1 currently, written in C) is
>pretty weak. It's slow, does not support native threads, does not do JIT
>compilation (not even bytecode), needs a better GC, etc. It is especially so
>if we compare it with Java and Smalltalk, who have gotten real good
>implementations (JIT compilers, fast GC, threads, etc) nowadays."
>
>Comments?
>
>

I saw this comment as well.  I think it's a valid concern.  In the area of 
performance Ruby is falling behind.  Smallscript shows that you can have 
high-performance dynamic language implementations.

Let's hope that Rite comes along soon...

Phil