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by cutler 3009 days ago
What's your evidence for Python ever having been 8 times faster than Ruby? Apart from the numeric libraries, written mostly in C or Fortran, Python has at best only ever gained a very marginal speed lead over Ruby and that has been wiped out in recent releases of MRI. Ruby's startup time is a bit slower than Python's but once they're off to the races both of these horses have been neck and neck for a long time.