Ruby is a slow performer

In article <1097311171.Cz/0lZE0M9/toShS+N4TCA@teranews>,

Hi,

I just found an interesting benchmark site. I am sure many of you know
about it :slight_smile:

  http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

Ruby is one of the slowest performers among compared languages.
Are there any plans to get better?

Rite (Ruby 2.0) is planned to use a VM. Perhaps YARV or maybe another.

Also, Ruby is generally 'fast enough' for most tasks. For things where
you need more speed it's quite easy to write a C extension either
directly using the Ruby C API (quite easy really) or by using RubyInline
or CGenerator. Often you only need to speed up a few methods in your
whole application by writing them in C.

Phil

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