From: Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney <devi.webmaster@...>
Date: 2008-02-19T15:29:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc.

On Feb 18, 2008 8:17 AM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
> I really don't understand why we don't toss RI in the standard library
> and replace it with the FastRI code.  It's RI with more features, it's
> faster, oh and it works.  What's the downside exactly?
>
> James Edward Gray II
>

I second. The first thing I tell new Ruby programmers is to use
FastRI. Ruby has a reputation for being slow, and RI really cements
that impression as people are initially learning the language. A
better implementation can be done, and has been done. It is time
FastRI was accepted as the standard.

Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney