Your mileage may vary but in my experience writing a decent amount of complex Ruby and Python code, Ruby is often about 20-50% faster than similar Python. I don

Your mileage may vary but in my experience writing a decent amount of complex Ruby and Python code, Ruby is often about 20-50% faster than similar Python. I don’t really know why that is. That said, the difference isn’t enough to matter. Both languages are in the same performance magnitude and thus suited for the same kind of tasks.