From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2005-04-06T01:56:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Extension question

On Apr 4, 2005, at 14:19, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> Ooh, that looks nice.  The image can be up to (and probably more than)
> 10,000x10,000 pixels though... that's a heck of a lot of memory.  And
> converting the data in Ruby would take a long time, I believe.  Too
> many iterations.

I was hoping Ara Howard would stick his head in here, but I'll just 
mention that he's doing some very performance intensive image 
processing using ruby/mmap and narray. I don't know the details, but 
I'd certainly give those two tools a look.

HTH,


Nathaniel

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