Interesting comparisons between languages for performance.
see http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/craps.shtml
Ruby does pretty well.

List processing and a few other areas seem somewhat significantly slower.
Beats Python and perl in almost all cases.

Incidentally is there a fast way to insert items into an array(effectively a 
list), e.g. a priority queue

George
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