From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-04-12T01:40:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Need IO Optimization help

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:59:28 +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
> But Ruby has some fundamental disadvantages compared to Perl for
> this sort of program. For example, count += 1 requires a method
> dispatch,

I've been thinking about this a bit since the last time the "++"
debate came up; the primary use for "++" is "count += 1", at least
in Ruby and Perl; might there be a call for a "Counter" class that
performs a similar purpose, but keeps the counting internal until
#value is called?

I'm not in a position to be able to write an extension that does
this at this point, but I'm wondering if it would be faster than
using Fixnum#+ and object assignment.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.04.11 at 12:28:59