From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T15:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Time for built-in Rational and Complex classes?

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> On 10/26/05, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> wrote:
> > For the Complexes, I hope that recoding it in C wouldn't reduce its
> > functionality. Right now, one can make not only Complex Floats, but also
> > Complex Rationals and Complex (Gaussian) Integers.
> Wouldn't it be a matter of doing a direct port from the current Ruby
> code, which hasn't changed in at least two years, to C?  Even better,
> to "Ruby extension C"?  I.e. no loss of functionality.

Well, do it, and tell how faster you can get it to be. I wonder how faster 
YARV is with Complexes, too.

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