Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality
by ksec on Friday February 12, 2016 @02:11AM
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Ruby is slow, but enough for many things.
Rails is slow, dog slow. And no one in Rails team care much.
While it is slightly unfair, most within the Ruby on Rails Community do not care about speed at all.
PHP has Facebook, Java has Sun and other Enterprise, JS has Google V8, as well as Mozilla / Apple providing competition, Lua has Mike Pall. Basically all these Dynamic Langauges has had million of dollars / man hours working on it for a long time.
In Ruby? If it wasn't for ko1 YARV Ruby is still very slow here.
So why all of a sudden we have two solution here that offer a magnitude of speed increase? My guess is that it created an interest within the Academic, VM Research Community, if they have to prove their VM ( OMR / Graal ) to work, they will have to choose one of the hardest, yet to optimized language to work on. I guess that is why both effort happens to be on Ruby.
While it is slightly unfair, most within the Ruby on Rails Community do not care about speed at all.
PHP has Facebook, Java has Sun and other Enterprise, JS has Google V8, as well as Mozilla / Apple providing competition, Lua has Mike Pall. Basically all these Dynamic Langauges has had million of dollars / man hours working on it for a long time.
In Ruby? If it wasn't for ko1 YARV Ruby is still very slow here.
So why all of a sudden we have two solution here that offer a magnitude of speed increase? My guess is that it created an interest within the Academic, VM Research Community, if they have to prove their VM ( OMR / Graal ) to work, they will have to choose one of the hardest, yet to optimized language to work on. I guess that is why both effort happens to be on Ruby.