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Re:Ruby is too slow for programming competitions by vidarh on Monday April 22, 2013 @03:10AM (#5588218)
The point is if you need the performance, C is the more natural choice for a lot of it at this point. I looked through one of the Go tutorials a while back, and it was WTF after WTF. If it works for you, fine, but Go has a long way to go to be interesting for a lot of us.
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Re:Ruby is too slow for programming competitions by JulianMorrison on Monday April 22, 2013 @06:18AM (#5588651)
C will give you 2 times the performance with 1/2 the memory usage of Go for 10 times the development effort, if you are skilled at optimizing C.
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