On 01/05/2010 12:37 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > Yeah. I love Ruby, but I'm getting a bit annoyed by the fact that it's > so much slower than Python... The question is: does it matter for most practical purposes - and: do you want to sacrifice a clean and simple program and the fun of creating it for a few cycles of CPU time? I wouldn't - especially since 1.9 is so much faster than 1.8 was. My 0.02EUR. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/