[#370825] Syntax error — Anthony Ob <vidgametester@...>

ERROR

17 messages 2010/10/01
[#370828] Re: Syntax error — Alex Stahl <astahl@...5.com> 2010/10/01

What are you expecting the "x:y" statement to do? I ask because I'm not

[#370844] how can we make a ruby compiler — Robin <r@...1.net>

how can we make a thing that compiles ruby into c++ source code?

50 messages 2010/10/01
[#370896] Re: how can we make a ruby compiler — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2010/10/02

[#371096] Re: how can we make a ruby compiler — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...> 2010/10/05

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:

[#371120] Re: how can we make a ruby compiler — Clifford Heath <no@...> 2010/10/05

Tony Arcieri wrote:

[#371127] Re: how can we make a ruby compiler — Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...> 2010/10/05

On 5 October 2010 07:10, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:

[#371129] Re: how can we make a ruby compiler — Samuel Williams <space.ship.traveller@...> 2010/10/05

[#371130] Re: how can we make a ruby compiler — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2010/10/05

[#370878] New to Ruby, Looking for Help With Basic Program — Mica Koizumi <monkeymica@...>

I am teaching myself Ruby and am trying to figure out why this program

12 messages 2010/10/01

[#370897] Ruby String: How do I strip anything between two parenthesis — Frank Guerino <frank.guerino@...>

Hi,

9 messages 2010/10/02

[#370912] The Third Ruby - Ever Comes Out at Night? — Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>

Often you see that Ruby can be object-oriented, functional or

19 messages 2010/10/02
[#370915] Re: The Third Ruby - Ever Comes Out at Night? — elise huard <huard.elise@...> 2010/10/02

I guess you could work only with modules and class methods, and avoid

[#370916] Re: The Third Ruby - Ever Comes Out at Night? — Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...> 2010/10/02

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:27 AM, elise huard <huard.elise@gmail.com> wrote:

[#370918] Re: The Third Ruby - Ever Comes Out at Night? — elise huard <huard.elise@...> 2010/10/02

2010/10/2 Jes=FAs Gabriel y Gal=E1n <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>:

[#370919] Re: The Third Ruby - Ever Comes Out at Night? — Mike Stephens <rubfor@...> 2010/10/02

[#370952] Pass by reference and copy on write — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>

I see

24 messages 2010/10/02
[#370955] Re: Pass by reference and copy on write — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2010/10/03

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:

[#370958] Re: Pass by reference and copy on write — Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...> 2010/10/03

On 10/2/10, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

[#370964] ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Ed Reed <joebananas10@...>

I'm trying to figure out what's so cool about Ruby. I need to create a

49 messages 2010/10/03
[#370982] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...> 2010/10/03

On Oct 3, 4:26=A0am, Ed Reed <joebanana...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#370996] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Ed Reed <joebananas10@...> 2010/10/03

WOW! Thanks for all the responses and please accept my apologies for

[#371079] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Ed Reed <joebananas10@...> 2010/10/04

Okay I've decided to start from scratch,... again. It's the start of a

[#371082] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...> 2010/10/04

On 10/4/2010 1:30 PM, Ed Reed wrote:

[#371087] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Ed Reed <joebananas10@...> 2010/10/04

My mistake on the gem commands. I did use the correct ones with dbd

[#371102] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...> 2010/10/05

On 10/04/2010 04:29 PM, Ed Reed wrote:

[#371195] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Ed Reed <joebananas10@...> 2010/10/05

The history.txt file for the mysql gem says

[#371209] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Dave Howell <groups.2009a@...> 2010/10/06

[#371275] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Ed Reed <joebananas10@...> 2010/10/06

Thanks for the extensive reply Dave. I certainly appreciate it.

[#371330] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Brian Candler <b.candler@...> 2010/10/07

Ed Reed wrote:

[#371455] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Ed Reed <joebananas10@...> 2010/10/08

Brian Candler wrote:

[#371413] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — David Masover <ninja@...> 2010/10/08

On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 02:40:38 am Dave Howell wrote:

[#371690] Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. — Dave Howell <groups.2009a@...> 2010/10/13

[#370991] install ruby on the mac — Basi Lambanog <basi.lambanog.tuba@...>

hello,

14 messages 2010/10/03

[#371020] save only first line from string? — Terry Michaels <spare@...>

Hi. What's the most simple and elegant way to remove all the contents of

21 messages 2010/10/04

[#371023] How to suppress display of specific code in irb?? — Don Norcott <dnorcott@...>

I am very new to ruby (but a retired experienced C programmer) and am

14 messages 2010/10/04

[#371049] how do i delete files in particular directoryin ruby ??? — Amit Tomar <amittomer25@...>

Hii all,

23 messages 2010/10/04
[#371052] Re: how do i delete files in particular directoryin ruby ??? — Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...> 2010/10/04

On Monday 04 October 2010, Amit Tomar wrote:

[#371069] Re: how do i delete files in particular directoryin ruby ??? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/10/04

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@alice.it> wr=

[#371181] How can I count number of elements in an HTML page — Paul <tester.paul@...>

Hi there, I'm using net/http to retrieve some html pages and now I

11 messages 2010/10/05

[#371221] setting local variables in a binding — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>

Why does this not work?

15 messages 2010/10/06

[#371226] XML-RPC WEBrick problem (error during method invocation) — Nikita Kuznetsov <moog_master@...>

I have a university assignement, and i am stuck. I am supposed to create

10 messages 2010/10/06

[#371239] "map" a deeply nested structure: Object#deep_map — Guido De Rosa <guidoderosa@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2010/10/06
[#371241] Re: "map" a deeply nested structure: Object#deep_map — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/10/06

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Guido De Rosa <guidoderosa@gmail.com> wrote=

[#371250] A Real World example for Ruby to "compiled" version discussion — Philip Rhoades <phil@...>

People,

10 messages 2010/10/06

[#371286] Why does Module#include exclude the module's metaclass? — John Mair <jrmair@...>

When classes are inherited in Ruby the singleton classes are also

11 messages 2010/10/06

[#371533] Why does a lot of code not include parenthesis? — egervari <ken.egervari@...>

I just started playing around with ruby and rails, and one thing I've

32 messages 2010/10/11
[#371534] Re: Why does a lot of code not include parenthesis? — egervari <ken.egervari@...> 2010/10/11

On Oct 10, 8:21=A0pm, egervari <ken.egerv...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#371610] Re: Why does a lot of code not include parenthesis? — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2010/10/12

vim completion works with, or without, the '(' and ')'. same with

[#371570] Can DRbUndumped be disabled for certain return types? — Josh Mcdade <josh.ncsu@...>

I have server model classes that definitely need DRbUndumped. Except

11 messages 2010/10/11

[#371580] more idiomatic way to avoid errors when calling method on variable that may be nil? — Charles Calvert <cbciv@...>

I'm using Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 249

34 messages 2010/10/11

[#371702] sort_by: multiple fields with reverse sort — Rahul Kumar <sentinel1879@...>

I need to use *sort_by* to sort a table, since the user could select

16 messages 2010/10/13

[#371704] Excel and Ruby — "Dan Sr." <djonavarro@...>

Hello all,

17 messages 2010/10/13

[#371878] Is it possible to find out if an identifier is a method alias? — Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>

>> def method; end

11 messages 2010/10/14
[#371880] Re: Is it possible to find out if an identifier is a method alias? — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2010/10/14

On 10/14/10 4:48 PM, Ammar Ali wrote:

[#371896] Re: Is it possible to find out if an identifier is a method alias? — Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...> 2010/10/15

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

[#371978] mechanize - extract href — Corey Watts <cwatts@...>

Hey there everyone. I'm having a slight problem using Mechanize. I'm

12 messages 2010/10/16

[#372016] unable to preload "rbconfig" in my irb session — "Sandeep K." <uniqueembassy@...>

I'm using Ruby 1.9.2 with Windows XP as host, I ran the command

11 messages 2010/10/17

[#372070] su {block of code.} — Guido De Rosa <guidoderosa@...>

Hi!

13 messages 2010/10/18

[#372181] Help missing something BASIC — Don Norcott <dnorcott@...>

This code is conceptually what I want to do with the nokogiri code below

11 messages 2010/10/20

[#372232] about handling args in block — salamond <jarodzz@...>

Hi, guys.

11 messages 2010/10/20

[#372234] Long conditional statements — Courtland Allen <courtlandallen@...>

Some parts of my code call for really long conditional statements of the

16 messages 2010/10/20

[#372289] generating random argument lists — Melody Class <rmiddlehouse@...>

Hi,

10 messages 2010/10/21

[#372361] Why is top-level an object rather than just Object? — John Mair <jrmair@...>

Why is it that top-level isn't just the Object class itself? what's the

14 messages 2010/10/22

[#372493] Utilizing data from a csv file — Paul Roche <prpaulroche@...>

Hi I basically want to create a function that takes in data that has

20 messages 2010/10/24

[#372568] Can't get ruby serial port to work — Dd Dd <dd25@...>

I recently installed Ruby Version 1.9.2 on my PC. I am trying to get

14 messages 2010/10/25

[#372572] Extraction of single subarrays from multidimensional array — Maurizio Cirilli <mauricirl@...>

Hi there,

25 messages 2010/10/25

[#372704] rsruby install trouble — Guybrush Threepwood <deadpool93@...>

Hello, trying for no particular reason to create a K constant calculator

15 messages 2010/10/27

[#372760] undefined method `find' for.:Module — John Hammink <john@...>

Hello,

10 messages 2010/10/28

[#372820] Is this an effective loop — Ted Flethuseo <flethuseo@...>

I was wondering if a loop of this sort would be

13 messages 2010/10/29

[#372835] Dynamically reference instance vars — Greg Willits <lists@...>

If I need to dynamically reference instance vars, is this the only way

11 messages 2010/10/30

[#372886] the dark side of inherited methods — timr <timrandg@...>

Let's say I want to make a new class, Vector (that will function,

38 messages 2010/10/31
[#372893] Re: the dark side of inherited methods — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2010/10/31

On Oct 31, 2010, at 5:30 PM, timr wrote:

[#372951] Re: the dark side of inherited methods — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...> 2010/11/02

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:49 PM, James Edward Gray II <james@graysoftinc.com

[#372964] Re: the dark side of inherited methods — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2010/11/02

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@medioh.com> wrote:

Re: A Real World example for Ruby to "compiled" version discussion

From: William Rutiser <wruyahoo05@...>
Date: 2010-10-07 13:57:13 UTC
List: ruby-talk #371372
Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> The "how can we make a ruby compiler" thread has been very interesting 
> - I really like hearing from serious and competent programmers about 
> the theoretical problems involved with this issue.
>
> William Rutiser asked for an expansion on the details of my C/C++ 
> population genetics simulation program as a specific example of how 
> one might proceed depending on a particular situation.  I am happy to 
> elaborate - not least because it would be good to get input from 
> experienced Ruby programmers before I just try to replicate the same 
> program in Ruby - I'm sure there will be more sensible/efficient ways 
> of doing things than what I would attempt first off and so comparisons 
> between my C/C++ version and a dodgy Ruby program might be even more 
> unfair . .
>
> I will summarise the C/C++ program as it exists now (it has gone 
> through a number of versions and has a lot of code that does not need 
> replicating for the present comparison) with a general overview (I can 
> add more detail later if people are interested):
>
> - A population is represented by a number of sub-populations which 
> occupy cells of a two dimensional array
>
> - each cell has pointers to three ordered lists - representing the 
> parental population, the offspring population and a temporary 
> population and each element of a list represents an individual
>
> - at each generation (of potentially hundreds), the whole array is 
> iterated through, new offspring are produced, migrants move to 
> adjacent cells, parents die off etc
>
> As well as this main simulation program, I have already replaced all 
> the original shell scripts and some of the statistical processing with 
> Ruby scripts but the main simulation program is where I couldn't 
> afford an order or two increase in running times by rewriting in Ruby.
>
> The main problem I see with some of the Ruby conversions that I have 
> looked at (eg RubyInline) is that the performance problem comes in in 
> repeating the WHOLE simulation with different starting parameters 
> which is done thousands of times - so it is not like you have a single 
> recursive algorithm which is a bottleneck that can be optimised or 
> rewritten in C or something.  There are lots of little steps that 
> happen millions of times . .
>
> I hope that is sort of clear?
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.
Some questions with my guesses at possible answers:

How much data is carried for each individual? a few alleles? a lot? the 
whole human genome?

What is done in the innermost loop? I imagine you select a pair of 
individuals, cross them, etc to produce more individuals. Or perhaps an 
individual dies or migrated to another population.

What do you do to run a new experiment? generate the initial population, 
specify the rules for combination, depth, migration, etc? gather data 
and process it at the end?

How much code do you need to write or rewrite for an experiment? How 
many parameters are involved?

Can you give some examples of aspects of the C++ program that you hope 
to improve by moving the sim to Ruby?

Can you say something about the context of your modeling? How is your 
simulator different from others used in the field?

-- Bill



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