> Classic myths from decades ago, like "Lisp is interpreted and slow", still echo from time to time too.
Pretty funny, considering how much faster CL is than, say, Python -- never mind Ruby.
Pretty funny, considering how much faster CL is than, say, Python -- never mind Ruby.
Lol, with the new JIT compilers and TruffleRuby, Ruby is blowing Python out of the water performance-wise. TruffleRuby approaching Nodejs speed for some tasks.
But yes, CL is fast. Faster than any other dynamic language, approaching Java speed (and Java is shockingly quick considering it has a GC).
All of that said, I would love for Ruby to usurp Python from it's thrown!
Almost as fast as Java, that's pretty speedy! It's not LuaJIT fast but it ain't half bad!
Lua is also a dynamic language, but who's counting?
One could use it as a dynamically typed interactive language with nice support for nd array manipulation, excellent support for calling C functions. Once satisfied with correctness of the implementation one could then compile it down to a statically typed C for speed. It ran circles around byte compiled Python in speed. Two of Python's relative advantages in the data-science domain were (i) nicer array manipulation syntax and (ii) one could build the non data-sciency part of the application in Python as well thus avoiding a proliferation of tooling and languages necessary.
Regarding Ruby, even TCL was faster than non JITed Ruby. That was funny because TCL used to be considered the slowest possible runtime (among professionally used runtimes)