isn't this just a single example of 'right tools for the job' and the common sense that ruby has abyssmal performance owing to /its/ architecture compared to ja

isn't this just a single example of 'right tools for the job' and the common sense that ruby has abyssmal performance owing to /its/ architecture compared to java and so simply can not scale as well as a like for like implementaton in java (which can be said to have abyssmal performance compared to /good/ native bytes, C or C++ [although that gap is narrowing significantly in many areas - especially when sloppy code is involved]).