From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T08:11:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Relative speed of Ruby vs Java for a large compiled app like Freenet

Isaac Gouy wrote:

>Complaining that it's wrong for Python to provide functionality that
>allows the program to run is simply bizarre. The problem is that Ruby
>doesn't provide that functionality.
>  
>
I just provided that functionality, see below:

def ack(m, n)
    if m == 0 then
        n + 1
    elsif n == 0 then
        ack(m - 1, 1)
    else
        ack(m - 1, ack(m, n - 1))
    end
end

if ARGV.size < 2
  require 'rbconfig'
  include Config
  system "ulimit -s 100000; #{File.join(CONFIG['bindir'], 
CONFIG['ruby_install_name'])} #$0 #{$*[0]||9} foo"
else
  NUM = Integer(ARGV.shift)
  print "Ack(3,", NUM, "): ", ack(3, NUM), "\n"
end

Will you complain now or change the Ruby script to use this 
functionality, that allows the program to run?

-- 
Florian Frank