From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-07-18T02:58:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31332] Re: [rubysoc] Queue C-extension patch to come

On 7/17/10, Benoit Daloze <eregontp@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 July 2010 06:00, Caleb Clausen <vikkous@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's not really needed. It should be obvious that c code is faster
>> than ruby code.
>
> It is not (for me at least), if you call the "top" Ruby api (which is
> directly (or almost) bound to Ruby methods (eg: rb_ary_new()), the
> gain is insignificant. (I imagine you only bypass parsing the Ruby
> code)

Replacing ruby's dynamic method dispatch with c function calls should
make a pretty big difference. Executing native instructions instead of
bytecodes should also help, tho less so I would think.