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sabat
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Not quite. He's saying that people who think Ruby is slow are often people who have no idea how to performance-tune it.
bpicolo
on March 13, 2013
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Well, more of the time it's because Ruby actually is, in fact, slow.
pjmlp
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I though the implementations were slow or fast, not the languages.
codygman
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Typically a language is considered slow or fast based on it's most popular implementation, sadly.
ajanuary
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True, though language design can have implications on how fast things can be implemented.
pjmlp
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Agreed, but it is still an implementation issue, because one can eventually discover ways to optimize such cases without changing the language.
sabat
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Ruby is not, in fact, slow. This myth has been debunked so many times that I'll just leave the googling to you as an exercise.
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