From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2002-01-21T14:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby binary handling (was: The fastest language for binary handling?)

Hi,

Niko Schwarz <niko.schwarz@gmx.net> writes:

|> I've done some simple binary handling in Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/)
|> - Find it ok for me ! :)
|
|dunno, binary streams were the only thing i _really_ had to disagree with 
|about ruby.
|
|not only that i dont see any way to handle streams (which means for me: a 
|pointer to some far resource, so that i dont need to keep my 2mg-picture 
|entirely in memory when i just want to send it over the net.
|
|and then: was matz drunk when he decided to represent binary arrays as 
|strings?

I don't drink, so it never be the truth. ;-)
Anyway, do you have any idea about "better binary handling" API?

							matz.