# Language performance could be irrelevant

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**Created:** [May 25, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/language-performance-could-be-irrelevant/61637 "2006-05-25T19:47:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/language-performance-could-be-irrelevant/61637/1 "2006-05-25T19:47:13Z")

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Glenn Vanderburg, in the Prag Prog’s “No Fluff Just Stuff: 2006  
Anthology”:

“For most systems, you get much more performance benefit from good  
architecture than you do from fast code. That’s a big part of the  
reason that typical Rails applications are at least as fast as their  
J2EE counterparts, even though Java typically benchmarks as about ten  
times faster than Ruby.”