[#10209] Market for XML Web stuff — Matt Sergeant <matt@...>

I'm trying to get a handle on what the size of the market for AxKit would be

15 messages 2001/02/01

[#10238] RFC: RubyVM (long) — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2001/02/01
[#10364] Re: RFC: RubyVM (long) — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2001/02/05

[#10708] Suggestion for threading model — Stephen White <spwhite@...>

I've been playing around with multi-threading. I notice that there are

11 messages 2001/02/11

[#10853] Re: RubyChangeRequest #U002: new proper name for Hash#indexes, Array#indexes — "Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01@...>

10 messages 2001/02/14

[#11037] to_s and << — "Brent Rowland" <tarod@...>

list = [1, 2.3, 'four', false]

15 messages 2001/02/18

[#11094] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

12 messages 2001/02/19

[#11131] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

Robert Feldt wrote:

10 messages 2001/02/19

[#11251] Programming Ruby is now online — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

36 messages 2001/02/21

[#11469] XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig)

23 messages 2001/02/24
[#11490] Re: XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig) 2001/02/24

Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> wrote:

[#11491] Negative Reviews for Ruby and Programming Ruby — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/02/24

Hi all:

[#11633] RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

13 messages 2001/02/26

[#11652] RE: RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Michael Davis <mdavis@...>

I like it!

14 messages 2001/02/27

[#11700] Starting Once Again — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

OK, I'm starting again with Ruby. I'm just assuming that I've

31 messages 2001/02/27
[#11712] RE: Starting Once Again — "Aaron Hinni" <aaron@...> 2001/02/27

> 2. So far I think running under TextPad will be better than running

[#11726] Re: Starting Once Again — Aleksi Niemel<zak@...> 2001/02/28

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Aaron Hinni wrote:

[ruby-talk:10222] Re: limits on computation?

From: Mike Wilson <wmwilson1@...>
Date: 2001-02-01 18:15:21 UTC
List: ruby-talk #10222
-----Original Message-----
From: "Dave Thomas"<Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML"<ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
Date: Thu Feb 01 09:51:39 PST 2001
Subject: [ruby-talk:10219] Re: limits on computation?

>Mike Wilson <wmwilson1@go.com> writes:
>
>> Just fooling around some, I ran this
>> 
>> irb(main):001:0> 1020939**28329282
>
> ...
>

snip

>I'm guessing that 1020939**28329282 would take something like
>12,000,000 seconds to compute, roughly 140 days.
>
>So, it seems like on a sensible-sized box, this is actually a viable
>calculation for Ruby to perform (if you really, really want to know
>the answer and don't mind waiting).
>
>You just didn't wait long enough...  ;-)
>
>
>Dave
>
>

Hmm, I've got a 16-way 10GB RAM Sun Enterprise 6500 sitting here..... ;)

It struck me as pretty cool that it doesn't limit the user, seeing perl basically give up was a shock though.  I'm not completely sure which is more comforting to me.
I guess I'll just need to make sure I check number sizes before doing maths ;)
Mike Wilson
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