From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2005-05-04T08:43:59+09:00
Subject: Re: I rock.


On May 3, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On 03 May 2005, at 15:21, Ryan Davis wrote:
>
>> If you want performance then you should either hand write (using 
>> RubyInline!) or take a peek at zenoptimizer when it gets released in 
>> my ZenHacks package (it uses a combination of ruby2c and rubyinline 
>> with a custom lightweight profiler I wrote last week).
>
> Yes.  When you find a slow part, you could use this as your template.  
> You'll have working Ruby/C code to refactor into faster C code in no 
> time at all.

oooh. I didn't think of that. Not sure why. :P

> I should be able to skip rb_funcall for places where I know the types, 
> and directly call the C implementation of a method.  That will be more 
> work though, because I'll have to fall back in case a TypeError is 
> raised in addition to pulling the right bits from the VALUE.

*nod*

I expect that we'll do a version down the line that includes 
TypeChecker in the SexpProcessor pipeline and we'll have better sends 
in that version.

Isn't it cool that we have these discussions out on a public list like 
ruby-talk??? It is almost like, oh I dunno, we want people to look at 
the software! ;)

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