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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by weberc2 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @04:24PM (#15553853)
That's not the graal backend. The TruffleRuby project uses Graal to make JRuby much, much faster. I don't know what the specific information, but generally "competitive with Java" is my understanding. Perhaps "TruffleRuby" is the name I should have used; it's not apparent and I'm only nominally familiar with the project.
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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by igouy on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @04:34PM (#15553968)
Current Status: "TruffleRuby is progressing fast but is currently probably not ready for you to try running your full Ruby application on."

https://github.com/graalvm/truffleruby#current-status

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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by weberc2 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:22PM (#15554399)
Ok, I was wrong about Ruby, but my point stands--Python and PHP are not even "speed demons" of the so-called scripting languages.
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