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		erlanger on April 2, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala But we've already been over this: It's not Ruby, it's Rails that's slow.

jrockway on April 2, 2009 [–]

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...

Scala is 900x faster than Ruby for some workloads. Ruby is not a fast language. It works for web stuff because every language waits for IO as quickly as the others.

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