------ art_2780_27842698.1170337955615 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Now that's just pushing it. Perl, Ruby, Python, Lua, Squirrel, are all WRITTEN in C, but they don't run at C speeds. There's still the interpretation overhead... And Andy? you're also pushing it. Compiled into machine code vs compiled into an interpreted byte code. You know what is being talked about here. Jason On 1/31/07, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov <ara.t.howard / noaa.gov> wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Jason Roelofs wrote: > > > Eh, just being facetious, and narray is a C compiled extension so > > vis-a-vis... > > gotcha. still, __ruby__ is a compiled C extension ;-) > > -a > -- > we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being > better. > simply reflect on that. > - the dalai lama > > ------ art_2780_27842698.1170337955615--