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octo_t
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The Crystal Programming Language
No it won't. There are so many problems with trying to get a dynamic language like ruby to be in the same order of magnitude of performance as C.
Garbage collection, inlining virtual calls etc.
melling
on Sept 7, 2013
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Go has garbage collection and it's in the same order of magnitude as C. In fact so are Scala and Java. So, we can at least stop blaming gc.
andrewvc
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Yes, but neither language is nearly as dynamic as ruby. That's where the costs come in. Method calls in ruby are comparatively glacial in speed.
vinceguidry
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That's why the ten years.
_19qg
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after ten years, square wheels will suddenly be round?
haar
on Sept 7, 2013
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If you've been rotating them against a surface in that time period; then they'll certainly be a lot more round than when they started.
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Garbage collection, inlining virtual calls etc.