From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-02-17T01:17:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Port of Perl's Parse::AFP?

On 2/16/06, Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> wrote:> 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.
Ruby's strings are COW.
-austin--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca