[microtonal]

You know that nearly any compiled language would give such speed-ups compared to Ruby?

[jrallison]

Of course, which was the main driver to moving to a compiled language. We just happened to choose Go :)

I've done a lot of Java and C++ in the past, and wasn't looking to go back to either of those.

[pjmlp]

Maybe even Turbo Basic would do the trick! :)