From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-04-11T04:13:58+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby speed?

Matt Sergeant wrote:
> 
> Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> wrote in message news:<20020406105449.GA20294@voi.aagh.net>...
> > Ruby's C API kicks crap out of Perl.
> 
> Except when using Inline::C.
> 
> Matt.

Well, there is CGenerator on RAA :)

I'm not sure how it compares to Perl's inline, but it definitely lets
you write inline code. It is especially useful for metaprogramming (I
use it to generate fast numerical functions from ruby inputs, and
dynamically load them).

It also includes CShadow, which is an easy way of writing classes with C
structs attached to them. You declare your attributes, and the mark,
free, accessor, initialization, and serialization(*) code is written for
you. Adding new methods written in C is fairly easy, though you are
responsible for data type conversion. See the examples subdir.

--
(*) serialization requires that you apply a patch to marshal.c, which
Matz said he would incorporate into some future release.