Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I read somewhere that Ruby is quite a bit faster than Python. Is 
> that true? Is it true under most circumstances, or just in special 
> cases?

No. Generally speaking, Python is faster than Ruby.

> The same article also said Ruby was somewhat slower than Perl :-)

True.

If you encounter performance issues, the profiler is your friend! :-)
The bottle-neck is often the programmer, not the interpreter :-P
Furthermore, Ruby will be significantly faster with YARV (Yet Another 
Ruby VM) http://www.atdot.net/yarv/

Cheers,
-- 
Antonio Cangiano
My Ruby blog: http://www.antoniocangiano.com