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I'd put it a different way: Ruby stole all the useful syntactic shortcuts from Perl and ignored all the cruft and ugliness. Unfortunately the one thing Ruby di
by skywhopper 12y ago
I'd put it a different way: Ruby stole all the useful syntactic shortcuts from Perl and ignored all the cruft and ugliness.
Unfortunately the one thing Ruby didn't steal from Perl was its speed.
- sigzero 12y agoHasn't that change in 2.X series?
- JonnieCache 12y agoIt's definitely a lot faster. I still wouldn't call it fast. Of course, most apps are I/O bound, objects in the heap are larger than they appear, blah blah blah.