With respect, I do not agree with the argument that one should use an
external language to get speed in Ruby. I do not know C and have no
desire to learn it. I program in Ruby partly to avoid the low level
details that C programming demands.
For the most part my Ruby programs are fast enough, but there are
noticeable slow points that cannot simply be solved by a better
algorithm. From my reading, it seems that Python is the main competitor
to Ruby at this time. I prefer the syntax of Ruby, but the performance
of Python is a significant point in its favor. The more that Ruby can
eliminate this gap, the better it will fare in competition, adoption,
and third party support--in my opinion..
Regards,
Jamal
With respect, I do not agree with the argument that one should use an
external language to get speed in Ruby. I do not know C and have no
desire to learn it. I program in Ruby partly to avoid the low level
details that C programming demands.
i appreciate the sentiment. however, saying you don't want to learn C, but
that you want fast code is a bit like saying you want to run a marathon but
only want to train 30 minutes three times per week - it just won't happen.
For the most part my Ruby programs are fast enough, but there are noticeable
slow points that cannot simply be solved by a better algorithm.
here's a challenge: show us one and see what the list can do. so far i've
never seen a case where posting to the list didn't yield huge performance
gains. seriously, you'll be doing the community a favour by showing such a
concrete example - see what you can distill into a short example and post it.
we need hard examples to work with - otherwise we are all waisting our time
and energy.
reading, it seems that Python is the main competitor to Ruby at this time.
I prefer the syntax of Ruby, but the performance of Python is a significant
point in its favor. The more that Ruby can eliminate this gap, the better
it will fare in competition, adoption, and third party support--in my
opinion..
narray (numerical ruby lib) is faster than pythons. gsl is the same.
image-magick is the same. what specific speed difference are you referring
to?
not trying to be difficult - let's just work with something __real__.
kind regards.
-a
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On Tue, 23 May 2006, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
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