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[Bruce Perens]

Ean Schuessler wrote:
> JRuby outruns Ruby... even Ruby 1.9.
While the last "ruby shootout" benchmark set is about a year old, it 
hardly showed JRuby as a performer. At that time I think it would have 
been fair to characterize JRuby as running at about 1/10 the speed of 
Yarv, the implementation that became Ruby 1.9 .

http://antoniocangiano.com/2007/12/03/the-great-ruby-shootout/

The main reason I'd not tremendously recommend building new projects in 
Java is efficient utilization of the programmer, and of the subsequent 
programmers who will have to maintain the project. Performance will not 
be the critical factor for this project.

For best readability by subsequent maintainers, either Python or Ruby 
should be recommended. The disciplined can write elegant software in any 
language, but some languages are better at guiding the programmer to do 
so than others.

    Thanks

    Bruce