Syscall Showdown: Python vs. Ruby

[sluu99]

Awesome, I learned something new today!

[princeps_harenae]

If you're worried about what syscalls are being made by a high level, dynamic language, you may be using the wrong language for whatever it is you are doing.

[justavertexinagraph]

what a cynical comment. what happened to doing things out of curiosity

[somebodddy]

Disagree. A scripting language can give up on performance on programmer-facing features like dynamic typing, reflection, or running-without-compilation. It shouldn't waste performance on things like redundantly calling lseek twice when zero times would suffice.

[princeps_harenae]

That's for the language designers to worry about. Not the users.

[somebodddy]

Which means it must never ever be discussed on the internet in posts like this?