Re:Golang 10x faster than Ruby for web APIs
by zyb09 on Friday June 14, 2013 @03:10PM
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10x is a lot though. Definitely not a positive for Ruby. People were making these comparisions between Java and C++ for ages, and called Java slow when something took 1.4x as long as native C++. Rails doesn't even try to compete.
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Re:Golang 10x faster than Ruby for web APIs
by snogglethorpe on Thursday June 20, 2013 @04:24AM
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Yeah, but Ruby is famous for being really, really, slow. Almost everything is faster than Ruby, and many things—including other typeless dynamic bytecode-interpreted languages—are crazy faster.
Being described as "much faster than that really super slow thing" is... well... I suppose it's not exactly a negative, but I wouldn't put it on my resume...