> Perhaps you wanted to use a different link? This one says that it [ruby] is ~10 times slower [than C#]? The link is correct. See the "code" section where Rub

> Perhaps you wanted to use a different link? This one says that it [ruby] is ~10 times slower [than C#]? The link is correct. See the "code" section where Ruby has 2-3x less code. I won't disagree about Ruby being much slower than C# and Java. Ruby slow[er]ness has to do with it being dynamically typed, which also makes it expressive. If you are after something which is more expressive than C# and faster than C# see Scala on the JVM: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=csharp&lang2=scala http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...