From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2002-08-24T08:53:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Judy


MF> It looks impressive. Faster than hashing (wow)!
MF> However it seems Judy only maps indexes or strings to 32 or 64-bit wide 
MF> words. Thus we'd have to add another layer to handle arbitrarily sized
MF> structs via pointers. I hope this wouldn't kill Judy's speed.

Right, the keys map to pointers, I think this is an intended use.

thanks,
-joe

MF> Why make a SWIG interface? If we change the st_* functions the
MF> modification is transparent to the rest of the code...

Let's see what Matz says.  But at first glance, it looks like it's
worth a try (the person that doesn't have to do the trying says...)
:-)

thanks,
-joe