"Colin Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the reason for Ruby being so much slower is because it is an > interpreted language rather than a compiled language.
It's not the main problem (interpreted languages are slower than those compiled to native code, but than even Java and C# are interpreted and don't have such big slowdowns). The main reason is that Ruby is not very good optimized -- AFAIK during most of the history of Ruby, running performance was not one of the main objectives. Recently I overheard that this changes these days. Python has much the same problem (not too much effort in high performance interpreters as compared for example to Java or C#). -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
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