
January 29th, 2007, 04:38 PM
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Slower is possible, but Ruby is fast enough in the vast majority of cases to run a web site. The key thing is that you can't base it on a development box.
As an example, running Rails via Mongrel has very respectable performance. How much it's going to compare to PHP, Python, or Perl is going to depend on the equality of the servers as well as whether or not all of the systems involved are running ORM's.
In short, just make sure the playing field is even before doing the comparisons.
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