From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-04-18T09:19:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Need IO Optimization help


--- Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
> On Friday, 18 April 2003 at  3:19:08 +0900, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > > > >> In my experience, the fastest way to access files (by far)
> is
> > > mmap.
> > 
> > 
> > Jim, I may be mis-remembering, but wasn't your original
> > task/goal/test to compare perl, ruby, (and others) at IO?  If so,
> > isn't using Ruby+C extensions....cheating, somehow?  
> 
> Why would this be cheating?

As I said, I may not understand what you are trying to do.  But if
you're comparing perl to ruby, compare perl to ruby, not perl to ruby
+ C.  If you "win" with ruby + C, could you not do the exact same
enhancement with perl, and end up where you started?

As a contrived example, if it's a simple "copy" test, and 'cp' is
rippingly fast, then why not just use system('cp foo bar')?  I mean,
that's ruby, right?


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