All blog posts tagged with speed

Light Speed Not Constant

Posted October 4, 2010

Here is a truly fascinating bit of research - it seems researchers have not only been able to slow down the speed of light, but even bring it to a complete halt.

Looking at the age of the gazette, this isn't a brand new thing - it was done 9 years ago.

It's amazing how discoveries like this go unher…

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Speed: Ruby vs. Groovy

Posted July 16, 2009

I'd like to set the record straight on an issue I've seen mentioned on the Internet. I've seen the Ruby fan-boys parading about (again) claiming that Ruby is faster than Groovy, and therefore RoR is better than Grails.

I've written a simple suite of benchmarks pitting many languages against each oth…

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