On Jan 25, 2007, at 02:08 UTC, Giovanni wrote: > To all the RB pros, > > Why is it that RB would be slower? > > I know that RB is not optimized, but is the performance penalty that > evident?
No. In fact, RB is faster at some things than code you'd most likely write in C/C++, as a great deal of effort has been put in under the hood to make them fast, even making use of parallel processing and so on. At other things, of course, it'll be slower than what you could do in C/C++, for example because those languages don't usually do reference-counting, but instead make you keep track of your own pointers and simply crash if you screw that up. Different environments have different strengths and weaknesses. Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verified Express, LLC "Making the Internet a Better Place" http://www.verex.com/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
