Re:Where does Ruby go from here?
by scottefein12 on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:50AM
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Ruby is a lot faster than it use to be. But it's a matter of Ruby being complimented by other languages for their best attributes.
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Re:Where does Ruby go from here?
by JonnieCache on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:53AM
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Oh it's definitely faster than it used to be. It used to be really slow. But object instantiation is ultimately still very expensive, and in a language whose design encourages the creation of huge numbers of objects, that's a problem.