From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T18:18:20+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with date.succ

On 8/15/06, Russ Pridemore <russ.pridemore@gmail.com> wrote:

> Any idea why ruby's date class needs to use rational numbers, though?
> Every time I'd get into the loop and break out in irb, I'd see a stack
> trace pointing to rational.rb...

Because the Date is stored as Astronomical Julian Date number
(whatever it is, see lib/date.rb comments and source) and the
conversion somehow needs it. NB: Due to this, I obtained a decent
speedup by caching Date object instead of creating them each time
anew.