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by mark_l_watson·17y ago·view on hn ↗
Well, I think this white paper goes a little overboard, but I might point some customers and potential customers to this PDF anyway.

I love Ruby as a language (I have gone from roughly 50% Common Lisp, 50% Java to using Ruby for about 1/2 my projects - all in a 3 year time period). Just a matter of letting go of the desire for great runtime performance :-)

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Don't find JRuby fast enough?
If most app time is spent in database calls, or network, etc., then Ruby and JRuby are definitely fast enough.

For some work, the order of magnitude faster performance of natively compiled Lisp, or Java is required, and in those few cases, I will not use Ruby.