> certainly better than, say, MRI Ruby Care to give some proof? Say, performance-wise, MRI is not any worse than PHP[1]. And as far as I understand, PHP imple

> certainly better than, say, MRI Ruby Care to give some proof? Say, performance-wise, MRI is not any worse than PHP[1]. And as far as I understand, PHP implementation is just plain horrible[2]. [1] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al... [2] http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/introducing-malicious-code-reviews/ http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/introducing-malicious-cod...