From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2007-12-26T10:07:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Legacy support (Was: Base64 not there makes Rails 2.0.2 fail to load in 1.9.0)

On Dec 25, 2007, at 3:01 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> �shouldn't gem developers be
> looking at porting their stuff back to pure Ruby whenever possible? I
> can understand C interface code for OS-specific functionality, but  
> is it
> really that necessary for raw speed any more?

I think this was true even before all these great new interpreters  
came about.  Not too diminish the work of others in C, but I think we  
put it first on the list of optimizations a little too often when it  
should generally come last.  A little algorithm work can often get  
Ruby to fast enough and I think we have a tendency to give up too  
easily.

James Edward Gray II