From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T19:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Port of Perl's Parse::AFP?

On Feb 15, 2006, at 18:08, Scott wrote:

> Has anyone had the need to port the Perl library Parse::AFP to Ruby?
> I'm trying to use the Perl version right now and I'm having some nasty
> memory usage issues (iterating through a 21MB AFP file consumes over
> 1GB of RAM).  Since I dont know Perl very well, a Ruby version would
> really help me out if it didnt have the same issues.

Just as a quick note Parse::AFP was written by Audrey Tang, of Pugs  
fame. She said in this interview:

     http://perl.com/lpt/a/2005/03/03/pugs_interview.html

that the problem in the Perl module was that Perl 5 did not have copy- 
on-write by then. She rewrote it in Haskell and the difference in  
performance and LOCs was really remarkable.

I don't know whether this, in her opinion, intrisic limitation is  
found in Ruby as of today.

-- fxn