On 9/24/07, William James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bill lam wrote: > > > The relatively poor performance of the ruby program seems to be a result > of > > looping writing one byte each time. Can ruby interpreter detect and > optimize > > that loop, or you have to reprogram it for a fair comparison. > > Ruby makes programming easy, but it seems to be the slowest > "scripting language". > Go to comp.lang.ruby and look for thread > "I am new to Ruby and I could use some expert advice as to > how I can make this code run faster."
Yep, Ruby is quite slow: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all (I'm sorry I only make off-topic posts.) -- Johannes Laire ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
