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No it won't. There are so many problems with trying to get a dynamic language like ruby to be in the same order of magnitude of performance as C. Garbage colle

• melling 13y ago
  Go has garbage collection and it's in the same order of magnitude as C. In fact so are Scala and Java. So, we can at least stop blaming gc.
  • andrewvc 13y ago
    Yes, but neither language is nearly as dynamic as ruby. That's where the costs come in. Method calls in ruby are comparatively glacial in speed.
    • vinceguidry 13y ago
      That's why the ten years.
      • lispm 13y ago
        after ten years, square wheels will suddenly be round?
        • haar 13y ago
          If you've been rotating them against a surface in that time period; then they'll certainly be a lot more round than when they started.