From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2005-10-26T05:01:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Pathname#join is slow (Was: Re: [PATCH] Pathname.exists?())

On 10/26/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Would a good solution be to implement Pathname in C?
> >>
> >> That certainlu couldn't hurt,
> >
> > No, it would hurt, writing it in C would make it more difficult to understand
> > and change by non-C rubyists.
>
> amen.  heavy string manpulation and c do not belong in the same sentence.

The implementation I had in mind would use the Ruby String methods
rather than direct manipulation.  It would be short and fairly easy to
read.

Gavin