>Ruby, at least, performs quite well. Are you talking absolute performance (as in machines are faster now, so speed has become less important) or relative perf

>Ruby, at least, performs quite well. Are you talking absolute performance (as in machines are faster now, so speed has become less important) or relative performance (compared to performing the same task with a different interpreter/complier)? https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=sbcl&data=u32 https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?t...