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cuillevel3 on Aug 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Killed Smalltalk?

Ruby isn't that much slower than other slow languages. But compared to the fast ones it is really really slow.

igouy on Aug 22, 2015 [–]

There's a chart for that --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programs-a...

-- but the question is always really really slow to do what exactly?

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