From: Sean Surname <x3qh85202@...>
Date: 2007-11-14T12:39:10+09:00
Subject: Re: enterprise ruby

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> As far as sharing data is concerned, to keep everybody's garbage
> collectors and memory allocators happy and segfault-free, you probably
> need to do explicit transfers of data between the various packages,

This is a significant barrier.  Having to marshal and unmarshal your 
data whenever you go from one domain to another is annoying.  It's a 
large part of what we're trying to avoid in moving away from a 
multi-language solution.  I think Ruby's got the right ingredients to 
pull this stuff together: dynamism, easy C interaction, and flexible and 
unobtrusive syntax.  But someone needs to sit down and do some Serious 
Work before it's a viable Matlab replacement.  I've made a couple of 
half-hearted tries, but it's hard to make progress piece-by-piece when 
you're trying to generate results right-this-minute.
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