From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-08-13T08:51:44+09:00
Subject: Re: PATCH to make internal Hash class retain order...

Hi --

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Hal Fulton wrote:

> 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.

Like I said -- he may not care whether anyone uses it (in this phase
at least).

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

Could it be implemented as an extension that redefines Hash?


David

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