Hi, I'm Tony Arcieri. You may remember me from such software projects as Celluloid, Reia, and Cool.io... There's a pervasive myth that Ruby is slow, and moreover, that it's the slowest language in popular use. Everyone knows Ruby is slow. Right? Who would possibly disagree that Ruby is slow? Here's an example IRC discussion on freenode's #postgres which happened just yesterday: 16:57 sobel: i can'