I use Ruby ALL the time, and I've never once thought, "I wish this was executing faster".
Yes, perhaps it could be more efficient, but I don't use Ruby for speed. The way that I see it, Ruby exchanges execution time for programmer time. Alternatively, If I want something to be fast, I'll spend a few days writing it in C/C++/Assembler, but I'd expect to spend at least an order of magnitude more time writing code.
Yes, perhaps it could be more efficient, but I don't use Ruby for speed. The way that I see it, Ruby exchanges execution time for programmer time. Alternatively, If I want something to be fast, I'll spend a few days writing it in C/C++/Assembler, but I'd expect to spend at least an order of magnitude more time writing code.