It is worth noting that the performance of Ruby varies even between the various implementations available for production use. So, if I had to attribute 'slowne

It is worth noting that the performance of Ruby varies even between the various implementations available for production use. So, if I had to attribute 'slowness', I'd say it's because of the implementation (compiler/interpreter) instead of the language design "Slowness" is subjective, but I think this answers your question.