From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T10:36:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Relative speed of Ruby vs Java for a large compiled app like Freenet


Florian Frank wrote:
> 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

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