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No, I do not give a damn about performance, I have a supercomputer that can perform 2 billion instructions per second, that is insane and much more that anyone'll ever need.
Another gem. Certainly more than YOU'LL ever need, because you'll never program anything more than bullshit Hello World programs in Ruby.
Talk to NASA about planetary astronomy. Talk to RSA about cryptography. Talk to SETI about radio telescope signal analysis. Talk to CERN about simulation and computation of the terabytes of particle physics data per month it will be taking. A few billion instructions per second is a joke to these people.