Ruby On Rails Showdown with Java Spring/Hibernate

Paradox writes "Java developer Justin Gehtland recently tried re-implementing one of his web applications in Ruby on Rails instead of his normal Java Spring/Hibernate setup. His analysis of overall performance and application size was startling, to say the least. The Java app's configuration alone was nearly the size of the entire Rails codebase, and Rails application was significantly (15%-30%) faster! At the same time, the Ruby community is abuzz because Ruby is getting a new optimized bytecode compiler for its upcoming 2.0 release. Will Ruby on Rails become even faster as a result?"

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Re:This is a flawed recollection.

[duffbeer703]

I stand corrected... I looked on the machine where I ran through some of the rails tutorials and found where I found the hole -- it was caused by exactly the problem you described.

I thought that I had read that it was a bug in one of the rails libraries... but I must have been incorrect.

A thousand apologies to the rail'ers out there.