[pikachu_is_cool]

I guess it's a start. But even still, the most basic of commands take a good 1+ seconds on my machine. What about Ruby makes it necessary to use? What is stopping you guys from moving to something like LuaJIT?

[mikemcquaid]

Rewriting the entire project in non-Ruby would require a lot of time and create a lot of bugs for little benefit for most users.

[pikachu_is_cool]

Unfortunate.