But as someone who has done a lot of web applications and as many of you I'm sure feel: it doesn't matter how fast your web application runs. What matters is whether your database layer and the schema you're using scales.
I guess the only arena that I really care about performance in is the database/datastore arena. Plus, Ruby is getting better optimized. Ruby 1.9 should be a huge leap forward and while it won't beat OCaml, it will be much, much better. So, I guess I can't get too worried about a performance problem that's easily taken care of - unlike database performance problems which are a complete PITA!
But as someone who has done a lot of web applications and as many of you I'm sure feel: it doesn't matter how fast your web application runs. What matters is whether your database layer and the schema you're using scales.
I guess the only arena that I really care about performance in is the database/datastore arena. Plus, Ruby is getting better optimized. Ruby 1.9 should be a huge leap forward and while it won't beat OCaml, it will be much, much better. So, I guess I can't get too worried about a performance problem that's easily taken care of - unlike database performance problems which are a complete PITA!