From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T08:47:45+09:00
Subject: Re: PATCH to make internal Hash class retain order...

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> 
> The problem you likely face, though, is that no one will use it (which
> may or may not matter to you :-)  You're requiring that people use a
> patched Ruby, and if anyone writes an application that uses it, then
> they require that everyone who runs the application use a patched
> Ruby, and so on.
> 
> It's much more likely -- probably literally thousands of times more
> likely -- that people will try out something distributed as an
> extension than that they'll patch the Ruby source.  And C extensions
> are very fast, once loaded.

My impression was that this was for play and for testing
prior to possibly being folded into Ruby.

Also, I don't yet see how this could be implemented as a
C extension. See my previous email.


Hal