This just in: Ruby actually fast now

Apple's version of Ruby could already, at this early stage of its development, be about three times as fast as the fastest Ruby implementation available elsewhere.^[1]

But that's still slow as fuck, right?
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_{[1] - http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/29/207240}

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It's compiled with the same shitty old version of GCC that compiles all the other shitty and broken C software that had diarrhea all over your hard drive. It's slow because it's dynamically typed and you can subclass any subclass so you can iterate while you see what I did there.