Glenn Vanderburg, in the Prag Prog's "No Fluff Just Stuff: 2006 Anthology":
"For most systems, you get much more performance benefit from good
architecture than you do from fast code. That's a big part of the
reason that typical Rails applications are at least as fast as their
J2EE counterparts, even though Java typically benchmarks as about ten
times faster than Ruby."
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Giles Bowkett
http://www.gilesgoatboy.org