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10x is a lot though. Definitely not a positive for Ruby. People were making these comparisions between Java and C++ for ages, and called Java slow when somethin

by zyb09 13y ago

10x is a lot though. Definitely not a positive for Ruby. People were making these comparisions between Java and C++ for ages, and called Java slow when something took 1.4x as long as native C++. Rails doesn't even try to compete.

snogglethorpe 13y ago
Yeah, but Ruby is famous for being really, really, slow. Almost everything is faster than Ruby, and many things—including other typeless dynamic bytecode-interpreted languages—are crazy faster. Being described as "much faster than that really super slow thing" is... well... I suppose it's not exactly a negative, but I wouldn't put it on my resume...