[#28561] Ruby::DL vs Ruby::FFI — Aston <blackapache512-ticket@...>

Ruby.DL and FFI libraries are great for programmers like me who are not internet programmers, but are more interested in scientific and number processing etc.

11 messages 2010/03/08

[#28686] trunk (26947) build fail with msys/mingw/vista — Jon <jon.forums@...>

I get the following build failure when msysgit's "c:\git\cmd" dir is on PATH.

8 messages 2010/03/16

[#28687] [Bug #2973] rb_bug - Segmentation fault - error.c:213 — rudolf gavlas <redmine@...>

Bug #2973: rb_bug - Segmentation fault - error.c:213

10 messages 2010/03/16

[#28735] [Bug #2982] Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readline — Lucas Nussbaum <redmine@...>

Bug #2982: Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readline

16 messages 2010/03/18

[#28736] [Bug #2983] Ruby (GPLv2 only) tries to link to with readline (now GPLv3) — Lucas Nussbaum <redmine@...>

Bug #2983: Ruby (GPLv2 only) tries to link to with readline (now GPLv3)

10 messages 2010/03/18

[#28907] [Bug #3000] Open SSL Segfaults — Christian Höltje <redmine@...>

Bug #3000: Open SSL Segfaults

19 messages 2010/03/23

[#28924] [Bug #3005] Ruby core dump - [BUG] rb_sys_fail() - errno == 0 — Sebastian YEPES <redmine@...>

Bug #3005: Ruby core dump - [BUG] rb_sys_fail() - errno == 0

10 messages 2010/03/24

[#28954] [Feature #3010] slow require gems in ruby 1.9.1 — Miao Jiang <redmine@...>

Feature #3010: slow require gems in ruby 1.9.1

15 messages 2010/03/24

[#29179] [Bug #3071] Convert rubygems and rdoc to use psych — Aaron Patterson <redmine@...>

Bug #3071: Convert rubygems and rdoc to use psych

10 messages 2010/03/31

[ruby-core:28563] Re: Ruby::DL vs Ruby::FFI

From: Erik Scheirer <e@...>
Date: 2010-03-08 16:06:09 UTC
List: ruby-core #28563
Just wanted to get my two cents worth in: I use Ruby for DSP processing, so all this is very important to me too.

cheers,
e

On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Aston wrote:

> Ruby.DL and FFI libraries are great for programmers like me who are not internet programmers, but are more interested in scientific and number processing etc.
> 
> I really like FFI, though I started with DL since at that time FFI won't build on windoz. Good part of DL is that it is part of standard libary, not supported (fully) by JRuby though. FFI on the other hand has matured and is available on windoz, greatest joy is same script will, in all probability run across all implementations.
> 
> recently few days back I saw some svn msgs suggesting that DL's dependency on libffi was removed, since libffi won't build on windoz (again!). so my question is will DL in future be based on libffi ? why just not use FFI. Its API and idea is very good and ruby like, against DL's idea of giving in C snippets to be interpreted by DL ?
> 
> Aston
> 
> 
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