[Freeswitch-dev] mod_ruby

[Derek Smithies]

Hi,
 You note the speed of java as being higher than python, and almost on a 
par with C++... Implying that C++ is faster than python.

Well,, my colleague has long said that python is faster than C++.

My conclusion..
 different languages are faster at different things. Speed comparisons are 
"interesting", but often misleading.

For a control language, speed is (almost) irrelevant. What really matters 
to the "person out there", who has just downloaded Freeswitch and is using 
it to do things like control a phone network, is
   a) clarity of code,
   b) ease of use, 
   c) reslience to errors.
   d) lots of web tutorials on the language, so he/she can get going with 
      the new control language in the minimum of time.

Now,  given that set of constraints, what is the ideal language???

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As a diversion, I would note that I have been to  lots of seminars where 
someone has presented their new software. There is almost always a slide 
or 2 on why they picked the language they did which contains speed etc and
other considerations. However, if you look a bit more, you discover that
(almost always) the language was picked cause that was the only language 
the author felt comfortable in.

Thus, let us think hard about why we want any add on language to 
Freeswitch before adding it.


Derek.

 On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Nikolay Kolev wrote:

> Ivan:
> 
> Java is way faster than ruby, python, javascript, etc. It's faster than mono
> too and almost at par w/ C++! I don't know how you came up with "slow"!
> 
> Nikolay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ivancoder [mailto:ivancoder at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:09 PM
> To: freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-dev] mod_ruby
> 
> With all this activity on alternative languages - is it possible to
> integrate with java? I realize it may be slow but some of us don't really
> need to build high end systems..
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Collins [mailto:mcollins at fcnetwork.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 4:45 PM
> To: freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-dev] mod_ruby
> 
> And the peasants rejoice!
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Fertig [mailto:brian at attdv.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:24 PM
> > To: freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org; freeswitch-
> > users at lists.freeswitch.org
> > Subject: [Freeswitch-dev] mod_ruby
> > 
> > To all who love ruby so..
> > 
> > 
> >    I got a email back from Matz today who said he will agree to issue
> a
> > license to us.  So mod_ruby is here
> > to stay!
> > 
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
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Derek Smithies Ph.D.
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