Isaac Gouy wrote:
> The OP seems surprised by the order of magnitude differences between
> Ruby and C performance - if he looked at regex-dna on the Computer
> Language Shootout he might be surprised that the Ruby program is
> relatively fast.
>   
Come on. I would hardly be telling people to write something in C if I 
thought that the improvement would only be few percentage points. It was 
no surprise to me that C was faster than Ruby, neither was it a surprise 
as to how much of an improvement it was. I have a habit of converting 
things from Perl and Ruby to C for this very reason. Have you really 
misread this whole set of threads for the past week?

The only surprise for me was Ocaml.