I don&#x27;t think so - it&#x27;s still &#x27;slower than similar languages with similar features&#x27;, so not sure what difference it makes that there aren&#x27;t many languages to compare against, if when we do compare it&#x27;s still slower.<p>I&#x27;d be interested to see what features there are that make the system slower in general, even when they aren&#x27;t being used. I did a lot of work in my PhD on making odd features not affect the performance of Ruby code when they aren&#x27;t being used.<p>Do you know what they are?