rubyinline, etc.

By: nordsieck (lesprit.d.delete@this.gmail.com), February 22, 2008 3:38 pm
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JasonB (no@spam.com) on 2/15/08 wrote:
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>It is definitely efficient enough for a whole bunch of tasks, just like
>a classic Pentium running C code is, but I don't consider an average of 50 times slower to be "reasonably efficient".

It depends on what you are optimizing for.

One really neat thing about ruby (and probably python) is that it is really easy to integrate it with c code (see rubyinline) for performance sensitive parts of a program, while maintaining the benefits of a high level language.
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