From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-02-28T22:49:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FasterCSV 0.1.6 -- With Header Support!

On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:12 AM, Sascha Ebach wrote:

> Hi James,
>
>> One of my design goals is keeping FasterCSV pure Ruby.  This makes  
>> it trivial to bundle with you app, if needed, and makes it more  
>> fun for me to maintain.
>> If you want to build a C version though, best of luck to you.
>
> No, I certainly don't want to build a complete C version. I was  
> thinking more like *if* RubyInline is installed, the main loop  
> could be translated to C. That's all. So the C version would be  
> completely optional. You know, if it is there use it else go with  
> the default Ruby only. The question is how much faster can it  
> actually be? If I look at PA's benchmark it looks like what you did  
> is make it 10 times faster. But the Python version is still 10  
> times faster. Maybe it's possible to make FasterCSV like 2-3 faster  
> with the use of RubyInline.

Patches welcome.  ;)

James Edward Gray II