From: Robert Klemme Date: 2011-04-19T01:10:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Need for speed -> a C extension? On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Martin Hansen wrote: > The below code is too slow for practical use. I need it to run at least > 20 times faster. Perhaps that is possible with some C code? I have no > experience with writing Ruby extensions. What are the pitfalls? Which > part of the code should be ported? Any pointers to get me started? Can you be a bit more specific about the slow part or even extract a simple use case which demonstrates the issue you are having? Also, copying it from your email and then fixing all the line breaks is tedious. Please use a more appropriate means to distribute the code in such cases (e.g. pastie, gist). Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/