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Ruby is great, but... (Score:1)

by Buck (2837)

it's slow. I wrote up a test script in Perl, Python and Ruby to do a regex search of a large text file. I'd post the numbers, but it would be ugly to look at. :) Long story short, Ruby was slowest of the three with execution times three times longer than Perl or Python. By the way, Perl was the fastest, but you knew that already. :)

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- Re:Ruby is great, but... (Score:2)
  
  by djberg96 (2603)
  
  Show us the code and give us an example of the text file. That, or show the profiler results and I'll show you where/how you can optimize it (if possible).
  You're right, though. Perl is slightly faster than Ruby in most cases. This has mostly to do with interpreter startup time, but I think the Perl Development team also has simply had more time to tweak the C code. This is the sort of thing that will improve over time.
  Patches welcome. :)
  - Re:Ruby is great, but... (Score:1)
    
    by Buck (2837) <buck@buckpyland.com> on 2003.01.14 23:05 (#16018) Homepage Journal
    
    Posted it all here [perl.org] for everybody's perusal. I expected Perl to be faster, but not by 3:1. I really hope it is something wrong on my part; I like Ruby a lot.
    
    Thanks,
    
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