From: Thomas Sondergaard <tsondergaard@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T08:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyInline 1.0.4 Released! (fwd)

I love it! So far, I only tried the example, but I can't wait to try it
on some of my own code.

It would be very nice to be able to provide optimized versions of
bottleneck methods, so I'd love to see something like this in the ruby
dist. 

Thomas

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 20:55, Pat Eyler wrote:
> Woohoo!  another cool new toy to play with!
> 
> -pate
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:15:00 -0700
> From: Ryan Davis <ryand@zenspider.com>
> Reply-To: ruby@zenspider.com
> To: Seattle Ruby Brigade! <ruby@zenspider.com>,
>      ruby-developers@lists.ruby-support.com
> Subject: RubyInline 1.0.4 Released!
> 
> RubyInline 1.0.4 has been released!
> 
> Ruby Inline is my quick attempt to create an analog to Perl's
> Inline::C. The ruby version isn't near as feature-full as the perl
> version, but it is neat!
> 
> Here is the output from the example bundled with the package (factorial
> 5):
> 
> <507> ./example.rb slow
> RubyInline 1.0.4
> Type = Native, Iter = 1000000, time = 24.01048500 sec, 0.00002401 sec /
> iter
> <508> ./example.rb
> RubyInline 1.0.4
> Building /tmp/Mod_MyTest_fastfact.so with 'cc -shared -O -pipe  -fPIC
> -I /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-freebsd4'
> Type = Inline, Iter = 1000000, time = 5.40564900 sec, 0.00000541 sec /
> iter
> <509> ./example.rb
> RubyInline 1.0.4
> Type = Inline, Iter = 1000000, time = 5.27179200 sec, 0.00000527 sec /
> iter
> 
> I'd love feedback and fixes for other platforms! The project is on
> sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyinline/
>