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Programming Languages as Essays (feddit.de)

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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 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.