From: Greg Lorriman <temp@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T00:56:30+09:00
Subject: slowness of WIN32OLE.rb in 1.8.2 - faster in 1.8.4?

Hi,

I've extensively used WIN32OLE.rb to program against excel data and
Access databases via ADO. Even after generating the wrappers using the
generator tool COM object calls are excrutiatingly slow (indeed I
noticed no difference despite what it says in pickax2; and yes I did
modify my code to instantiate the wrapper's constructor)

I hate to say it but I've ended up doing quite a lot of VB instead of
Ruby simply because I can't live with the speed penalty.

It is so slow that it would indicate to me a problem in win32ole.

Any comments?

Greg