Rails on Windows: Slow?

Question

I am doing some initial testing for a Rails app which will be deployed on Windows, but the development server in a VirtualBox is painfully slow. I've never seen anything like this in Linux (but the server platform must be Windows), even in an identical virtual appliance.

Is Rails on Windows viable in terms of speed?

Answer 1

I've tried 18.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 on Window, OS X and Linux. I have found the response time using Windows to be longer than using either OS X or Linux (Webbrick and Mongrel). If I use Windows purely as a server, response time seems as OS X Linux, but much slower if I develop and render result using any browser whilst using the same computer.