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JRuby Performance: Exceptions are not flow control

I started playing with JRuby tonight, and got my application up and running on it in under 10 minutes (kudos to the JRuby team!), but when I started measuring its performance, I was seriously unimpressed. This didn’t quite line up with what I’ve read of JRuby, so I decided to do a little digging.