From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-07-12T15:47:05+02:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03955] Thanks all!

It might be good spot to say my first "stress-test" went fine. My machine
was loaded 93% by a Ruby script over the night, but it was creating only few
object and mainly calculating with them. Even so, it seemed there was no
problems with the GC since the memory consumption didn't raise notably
during the night.

The script was doing something meaningful (trying to find out how different
species coevolve). It was hacked together in three hours from the mental
picture I had from the earlier implementation from Perl times. That version
was done one week's evenings, so I was quite amazed of the development speed
in Ruby. But to be fair I have to remind it was the first implementation,
requiring a lot of rereading of the specification, and I wasn't too familiar
with Perl objects then. 

Anyway I got *great* feeling of doing some real work in Ruby, a lot of
confidence and  I'm really grateful for matz creating such a piece of art! I
also own a lot to Ruby community helping me out.

	- Aleksi