Programming Languages as Essays - eviltoast
    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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      1 year ago

      No, there circulated a performance list a while ago. Python was in the lower third while Ruby was bottom.

      • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Which benchmark are you talking about? The most common I know of is the computer language benchmarks game, here’s a nice implementation of it.. You can see ruby is actually a decent bit faster.

        It’s an annoyingly persistent myth that ruby is significantly slower than python.