From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-01-26T06:20:08+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby bounties--list of bounties


On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote:

> People keep saying that FFI is the better way to go, but as someone who
> has to support both an FFI version and a C version, I can tell you the
> support / development problems with FFI are much more difficult.

1. I have no direct experience using FFI, so my opinions should carry the appropriate weight. I defer to your real-world experience.

2. I'm not much of a bikeshedder.

I agree with Eleanor. Let's fix the performance deficiencies in the runtimes and write more code in ruby.

cr