"Claim 2. Ruby is the slowest thing imaginable. I’ve tackled this argument with some vigor before, but suffice it to say that real-life Ruby applications must b

"Claim 2. Ruby is the slowest thing imaginable. I’ve tackled this argument with some vigor before, but suffice it to say that real-life Ruby applications must be compared against real-life PHP or Django applications, and they perform quite well. Even Rails, not exactly the fastest Ruby web framework, beats out CodeIgniter in Hello World benchmarks, and is dead even with CodeIgniter on more robust benchmarks. Comparing it with CakePHP, which is a closer feature-for-feature comparison, Rails completely destroys Cake in all benchmarks." Huh? The original argument is that the language is slow yet Yehuda is comparing framework speeds. Apples and oranges.