From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T05:03:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Native gem roundup!


On Feb 2, 2009, at 07:15 , Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> * They are wrappers around a C API/library, as in zlib, rmagick,  
> nokogiri
> * They are written for performance reasons, to implement a  
> particular algorithm in a native language or call a library for the  
> same reasons

or they're written to get into ruby internals... I don't quite  
consider that a wrapper around C API and it looks like you don't either.