[#68415] eval'ing a config file — Ian Macdonald <ian@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2003/04/01

[#68421] sharing objects between tests (revisited?) — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>

I don't know if I've asked this on this list before or only on irc (I

13 messages 2003/04/01

[#68436] April Fools. — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

Hey guys and gals,

24 messages 2003/04/01

[#68449] Newbie question:read file speed — "Greg Brondo" <greg@...>

Why is ruby (on windows) so much slower at reading lines in a file (as

36 messages 2003/04/01

[#68527] Any Hardware/EDA engineers out there? — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

12 messages 2003/04/03

[#68605] keeping track of non-exported global variables — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>

problem:

12 messages 2003/04/04

[#68623] To inherit or to include? That is the question. — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hi

11 messages 2003/04/04

[#68707] Call for standardised package installation procedure — google@... (Tom Payne)

I'm helping maintain Ruby and Ruby packages in Gentoo Linux.

57 messages 2003/04/06
[#68712] Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure — "James Britt" <james@...> 2003/04/06

> It would make my job a lot easier if just one were chosen, and perhaps

[#68729] Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2003/04/06

----- Original Message -----

[#68738] Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure — google@... (Tom Payne) 2003/04/07

John Johnson <jj5412@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<1049655145.1847.10.camel@hppav.home.net>...

[#68779] Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure — Austin Ziegler <austin@...> 2003/04/07

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:47:20 +0900, Tom Payne wrote:

[#68781] Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2003/04/07

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:34:26AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#68826] Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2003/04/08

On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 3:42:49 AM, Mauricio wrote:

[#68803] Having trouble getting iconv-0.5 working on OS X — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>

I do a make, install, and then:

10 messages 2003/04/08
[#68806] Re: Having trouble getting iconv-0.5 working on OS X — Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@...> 2003/04/08

Hi,

[#68811] Array Sutraction — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Ok, this has been discussed at length previously,

25 messages 2003/04/08
[#68820] Re: Array Sutraction — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...> 2003/04/08

[#68828] Re: Array Sutraction — Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/04/08

>

[#68843] Ruby for graphics — "Your Name Here" <jim@...>

I just learned of Ruby, and was wondering if its a good lang for

17 messages 2003/04/08
[#68844] Re: [Q] Ruby for graphics — Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/04/08

--- Your Name Here <jim@fivek.com> wrote:

[#68908] The "!" and "?" characters. — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

One of the things I like about Ruby is that it can use ! and ? in method

22 messages 2003/04/08

[#68929] embedding ruby — emilie3012@... (Steve Hart)

Please forgive the following if answers appear elsewhere but I have

13 messages 2003/04/09

[#68943] unknown node type 0 — Francois GORET <fg@...>

Hello,

12 messages 2003/04/09

[#68996] ANN: ri v1.8 — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

I'm releasing a very preliminary version of 'ri' for Ruby 1.8. This

21 messages 2003/04/09

[#69025] tutorial on embedding ruby (review) — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>

What do you think about it ?

30 messages 2003/04/09

[#69054] PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL — "Mr. John Eze" <mr_musa3@...>

16 messages 2003/04/10
[#69066] Re: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL — Peter Hickman <peter@...> 2003/04/10

As an aside not only would the origonal spam be removed by your rules,

[#69096] Need IO Optimization help — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hello:

69 messages 2003/04/10
[#69197] Re: Need IO Optimization help — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) 2003/04/11

In article <20030411115918.A35958@linnet.org>,

[#69239] Does dynamic typing make it easier to place an object in a container? — Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...> 2003/04/12

The following is from

[#69240] Re: Does dynamic typing make it easier to place an object in a container? — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2003/04/12

Mark Wilson wrote:

[#69245] Re: Does dynamic typing make it easier to place an object in a container? — Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...> 2003/04/12

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:40:07 +0900

[#69581] Re: Need IO Optimization help — David King Landrith <dave@...> 2003/04/17

In my experience, the fastest way to access files (by far) is mmap.

[#69583] Re: Need IO Optimization help — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2003/04/17

On Thursday, 17 April 2003 at 19:29:16 +0900, David King Landrith wrote:

[#69591] Re: Need IO Optimization help — David King Landrith <dave@...> 2003/04/17

On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 06:45 AM, Jim Freeze wrote:

[#69593] Re: Need IO Optimization help — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2003/04/17

On Thursday, 17 April 2003 at 22:11:55 +0900, David King Landrith wrote:

[#69179] Two questions — "Steve Adams" <adamss@...>

What restrictions does the Ruby license place on the construction and sale

14 messages 2003/04/11

[#69194] splat question — "Chris Pine" <nemo@...>

(This question assumes that the unary `*' (used in arrays and such) is

13 messages 2003/04/11

[#69214] class documentation — "Bermejo, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.bermejo@...>

Hi all;

13 messages 2003/04/11

[#69271] Controlling an interactive program from Ruby — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2003/04/13

[#69280] ruby_script() — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>

I am wondering what exactly ruby_script() is doing ?

15 messages 2003/04/13

[#69357] A class, that knows about it's instances + Sets — KONTRA Gergely <kgergely@...>

Hi!

11 messages 2003/04/14

[#69413] rb_class_new_instance behaves strange — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>

My code is behaving different, when im doing this change:

23 messages 2003/04/15

[#69424] Urgent Assistance — "Victor Aloma" <victorloma@...>

12 messages 2003/04/15

[#69439] ANN: Debian packages of FreeRIDE, FOX, FXRuby, Ripper, FXScintilla, etc — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...>

9 messages 2003/04/15

[#69470] regular expressions — "Chris Pine" <nemo@...>

When I first learned regular expressions, they were no problem. It was in a

27 messages 2003/04/15

[#69518] Roundoff problem with Float and Marshal — cilibrar@... (Rudi Cilibrasi)

The following small test program:

29 messages 2003/04/16

[#69536] Reg. Expressios with "\n" — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

Hello,

14 messages 2003/04/16

[#69585] extension - redirect a block — student_vienna@... (daniel)

hello,

11 messages 2003/04/17

[#69595] ANN: ri 1.8b — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

I've updated ri:

14 messages 2003/04/17

[#69645] avoiding the module name — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>

11 messages 2003/04/17

[#69700] Biased weighted random? — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

Hi, all...

51 messages 2003/04/18

[#69762] Multi-Lingual Ruby — Jim Weirich <jweirich@...>

I was following a Java VS Perl discussion on a web board that I read.

12 messages 2003/04/20

[#69806] ASCII class inheritance tree generator — Simon Vandemoortele <deliriousNOSPAM@...>

I thought I might share this little piece of code that generates a

10 messages 2003/04/21

[#69830] Ruby in a university course — "Chad Fowler" <chadfowler@...>

Maybe this has already been covered here, but I found it interesting =

14 messages 2003/04/21

[#69931] Ruby.shop — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

Hello, all.

28 messages 2003/04/23

[#69956] grep and regular expressions in ruby — "Krishna Dole" <kpd@...>

I'm quite taken with ruby, but recently I ran into trouble using grep. I

15 messages 2003/04/23

[#69969] Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby.shop — Jim Weirich <jweirich@...>

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 18:16, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

18 messages 2003/04/24

[#70015] How to call an object instance's method? — Rene Tschirley <pooh@...>

Dear Ruby Experts,

28 messages 2003/04/24
[#70016] Re: How to call an object instance's method? — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...> 2003/04/24

[#70019] Re: How to call an object instance's method? — Rene Tschirley <pooh@...> 2003/04/24

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#70072] Re: How to call an object instance's method? — "Chris Pine" <nemo@...> 2003/04/24

----- Original Message -----

[#70017] MathN — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

I'm trying to get to grips with the 'mathn' library. I can see what it

12 messages 2003/04/24

[#70034] block.call vs. yield — "Orion Hunter" <orion2480@...>

I noticed that the use of block/yield differs slightly when a "break" is

44 messages 2003/04/24
[#70046] Re: block.call vs. yield — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/04/24

Hi,

[#70087] Re: block.call vs. yield — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/04/25

Hi,

[#70113] Re: block.call vs. yield — dblack@... 2003/04/25

Hi --

[#70182] Re: block.call vs. yield — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2003/04/26

----- Original Message -----

[#70189] Re: block.call vs. yield — dblack@... 2003/04/26

Hi --

[#70039] Accessing Ruby class from C extention — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

I know it's possible to write Ruby in C but is it possible to instantiate

16 messages 2003/04/24

[#70064] Hashes and Enumerable#each_with_index — Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>

OK, looking at the archives I know this was discussed a few years ago,

16 messages 2003/04/24

[#70265] Generating a DLL file? — "Rich" <rich@...>

Let's start with:=20

22 messages 2003/04/27
[#70277] Re: Generating a DLL file? — "Rich" <rich@...> 2003/04/28

I don't know C - or C++... and I'd rather not learn.

[#70280] Re: Generating a DLL file? — Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/04/28

--- Rich <rich@lithinos.com> wrote:

[#70268] c++/ruby debugging advices — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>

Im embedding ruby into c++ and im having a segfault problem which

11 messages 2003/04/27

[#70422] Pass-by reference VS encapsulation ? — Simon Vandemoortele <deliriousREMOVEUPPERCASETEXTTOREPLY@...>

34 messages 2003/04/30

Re: Newbie question:read file speed

From: Greg Brondo <greg@...>
Date: 2003-04-03 16:35:17 UTC
List: ruby-talk #68560
Brian Candler wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:51:28AM +0900, Greg Brondo wrote:
> 
>>Here they are:
> 
> 
> Cheers. I've run them here under FreeBSD-4.7 running on a Sony Vaio laptop,
> Pentium 266MMX. For the data file, I'm using:
> 
> $ wc /usr/share/dict/words 
>   235881  235881 2493066 /usr/share/dict/words
> 
> (with an average line length of only 10.6 bytes it's perhaps not the most
> realistic example, but it will do)
> 
> Running the code you gave, I get the following times averaged over three
> runs:
> 
> Ruby   (1.6.8)         6.81 secs
> Ruby   (1.8.0p2)       6.57 secs
> Python (2.2.1)         6.72 secs *
> Java (jdk-1.3.1p6_4)  16.76 secs **
> 
> * it printed "Elapsed = 6", so the time given is using the 'time' command;
> this is slightly unfair to python as it includes the interpreter start-up
> time which the Ruby time doesn't.
> 
> ** printed "Elapsed = 16", ditto
> 
> Note however that I am running under X, and it seems quite a lot of time is
> spent just writing the progress messages to the xterm. If I add '>/dev/null'
> to the end of the command line and use unix 'time' then I get:
> 
> Ruby   (1.6.8)         3.8 s
> Ruby   (1.8.0p2)       3.4 s
> Python (2.2.1)         3.7 s
> Java (jdk-1.3.1p6_4)   8.6 s
> 
> So on this basis Ruby stacks up pretty well against the languages you
> mention, running under Unix. From your figures it seems that Ruby is slower
> under Windows, and I would guess that this is somehow related to the way
> Ruby performs I/O, or perhaps to the threading support (e.g. making extra
> calls to select() before I/O operations). Maybe a Windows developer could
> compare the Python and Ruby I/O source code and see if there are significant
> differences in the way they talk to Windows.
> 
> Out of interest, I also ported your code to Perl (attached), and also
> modified the Ruby code to use a more iterative style to be closer to Perl. I
> get:
> 
>                    (to screen)  (to /dev/null)
> Perl (5.005_03)      3.9 secs     2.3 secs
> Ruby (1.6.8)         6.5 secs     3.6 secs
> 
> So it seems that Perl is significantly faster in this simple test, but also
> the block/yield approach does not by itself add a great deal of overhead
> (fortunately!)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> filename=ARGV[0]
> lc = 0
> starttime = Time.now.to_f
> f = File.open(filename)
> while f.gets
>  lc += 1
>  if lc % 1000 == 0
>   puts "Read #{lc} lines"
>  end
> end
> stoptime = Time.now.to_f
>   
> puts "Elapsed = " + (stoptime - starttime).to_s

Hmm.. I tried it under Ruby 1.6.8 compiled with GCC on Solaris 2.8 and 
it was still slow.  I'll try it again on Linux (Debian Unstable) and see 
what I get.


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