From: Olivier Saut <Olivier.Saut@...>
Date: 2002-12-01T20:51:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Numerical Ruby

On Sun, 01 Dec 2002, MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> 
> In the end it depends on whether you use Ruby because it is easier as an
> implementation language, or becuase you want the end users to be able to
> access the library from Ruby. The latter approach is good, the former is
> bound to be slow.

I use Ruby to shorten my development time. Beside the numerical
computations, Ruby dramatically reduces the pain to write
the input/output/interface methods of the code.

> There is also the NML language by dmcclaim which generates compiled ocaml
> code on the fly resulting in (claimed) rather fast evaluation of numerical
> applications even compared to C libraries because of the dynamic compilation
> of expressions. It might be a backend for a Ruby solution.

Great, I will have a look a it.

Thanks!
			- Olivier