Re:Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
by papsosouid on Monday April 22, 2013 @11:30AM
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>Why
Because it is a huge pain in the ass, and very rarely does any good. As soon as you are writing C, you are dealing with all the headaches that go with it for both development and deployment. You've lost a big part of the benefit of using scripting language X. And this part:
>In many cases, only a tiny fraction of your code needs to be fast
Isn't true. People repeat it a lot, but I've seen no evidence to support it. Most people are using scripting languages for web apps which really are just generally slow all over. They would need to write 80% of it in C to get good performance. Seems like using a language that is as productive as scripting languages, but is also fast, makes a lot more sense.
Because it is a huge pain in the ass, and very rarely does any good. As soon as you are writing C, you are dealing with all the headaches that go with it for both development and deployment. You've lost a big part of the benefit of using scripting language X. And this part:
>In many cases, only a tiny fraction of your code needs to be fast
Isn't true. People repeat it a lot, but I've seen no evidence to support it. Most people are using scripting languages for web apps which really are just generally slow all over. They would need to write 80% of it in C to get good performance. Seems like using a language that is as productive as scripting languages, but is also fast, makes a lot more sense.