Your language is shit and the programs you write are slow. Switch to Python and be enlightened.
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Anonymous2011-05-24 23:58
Rubyfag here. Ruby 1.9 is just as fast as Python (or to be more accurate, Python is just as slow as Ruby 1.9), but for everything other than speed, Ruby kicks ass.
Ruby has:
Better syntax
Everything is an Object™ (including lambdas)
There's more than 50 ways to do it
And most importantly...
NO FORCED INDENTATION OF CODE.
That said, if you cared about speed, why are you using a scripting language at all? Use C if you care about performance