From: John Koschwanez Date: 2005-12-30T02:11:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Real-time image processing in Ruby >> If you do find yourself writing ruby loops to touch large sets >> of individual pixels, however, you should probably consider >> extending NArray in C instead - hopefully with some pretty >> general purpose function so many ruby algorithms could make >> use of the same extensions. (for example, I'm not sure if >> NArray has a nice way of specifying a mask to only process >> part of an image). > > and a combination of NArray and RubyInline and/or ruby dl would make for > very > rapid prototyping indeed. > > -a Thanks - I'll try NArray with RubyInline. I was about to complain that something so useful is not included in the stdlib, but I then saw the recent thread covering that subject. Someday...RubyLab! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.