From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-08-08T22:43:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Profiling Ruby Matrix operations

Jan Svitok wrote:
> On 8/8/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>> Apparently there is a SWIG wrapper for GiNaC that generates Python
>> bindings for it. It can't be very difficult to port that to Ruby,
>
> Ruby support in SWIG is not as complete as Python's, mainly regarding
> stl and wide strings. So the ease of porting will depend on whether
> you encounter any deficiency or not. Anyway, chances are that you
> won't. In that case porting should mean just changing swig command
> line...
>
> J.
>
>
I've downloaded their code and I'm looking at it now. I'm rather 
hampered by not knowing any Python. Meanwhile, are you talking about the 
*latest* SWIG? I've got 1.3.29, which includes support for "pike", 
"mono", "lua" and "ocaml" in addition to the more common languages. When 
I was looking through the SWIG documents, it looked like they had a 
fairly complete section on the Ruby interface. ANd it doesn't have to 
work on Windows . :)

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