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		lerax 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Calculating the largest known prime in Ruby I've been told that Ruby was the slowest language of the universe, much more than Python. That's interesting challenge!

Alifatisk 10 months ago [–]

I think that reputation stem from Ruby 1.X era, Ruby is now at 3.X which have had massive improvements on the performance (for being an interpreted language).

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