From: Simon Conrad-Armes <curne@...> (Curne)
Date: 2004-11-04T20:58:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby BitTorrent


On Nov 4, 2004, at 11:33 AM, Michael Neumann wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:13:17PM +0900, Simon Conrad-Armes wrote:
>> Has anybody started a Ruby BitTorrent transfer library? I wanted to
>> start a RubyForge project for one but I hate duplicating the worthy
>> efforts of others.
>
> Yep, it's me ;-)
>
> http://ntecs.de/viewcvs/viewcvs/BitTorrent/
>
> I've started with the client protocol, but that in a very ungood shape,
> and is not yet commited.

That's cool tho. I figured someone out there must have gotten the same 
idea :)
Are you writing a full client or a library? From the code in repo it is 
difficult to see.

>> I thought of starting off with a simple layer of glue around libbt
>> (http://libbt.sf.net).
>> Any thoughts, ideas?
>
> hm, why not write BT in pure Ruby?
>

More work... But I suppose you are right. Coding RubyC for I/O-centric 
stuff is an old habit based on performance superstition. From other 
implementation in other than pure C, I have seen greatly varying 
transfer rates... But you have the semi-working code. Have you noticed 
any performance issues?

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