Andreas Schwarz schrieb:
> seekingleverage / gmail.com schrieb:
> 
>> I'm wondering if anyone could shed some light on whether or not it
>> would make sense to do a Freenet client in Ruby.
>>
>> Obviously, from an elegent code standpoint, Ruby is probably more
>> manageable and in general a better all round experience.
>>
>> What I'm curious about though, is the execution speed of compiled Ruby
>> code vs Java running on the virtual machine.
> 
> 
> Java is much faster. Search for "Language Shootout".

PS: A more important limitation is that Ruby doesn't use native threads.