> much-criticized "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." > showed Ruby ≤ 1.8 a good deal slower tha

> much-criticized "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." > showed Ruby ≤ 1.8 a good deal slower than CPython 2 It's taken me a couple of days to remember web.archive.org :( CPython 2.5 vs ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) https://web.archive.org/web/20070219190706/http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=ruby https://web.archive.org/web/20070219190706/http://shootout.a...