Programming Languages as Essays - eviltoast
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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.