From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T12:07:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshal efficiency [precompiled 1.8 for cygwin?]

> Folks,
>
I wrote:
> As an intermediate step in a small software system that performs a large
> amount of data gathering, I am using Marshal to store processed results,
> so that other programs can use this information.
>
> At first, this was an excellent solution: couldn't be easier, and it
> demonstrated good performance.  However, as I am collecting more and
> more data, the period of time required to serialise the data to disk is
> balooning - it seems quadratically.  [...]


Soon after I sent this, I decided to search the mailing list for existing
information (yes, I often get things backwards...).  It turns out that
Marshal is known to be much faster in 1.7/1.8 than in 1.6.

The mailing list does not, however, lead me to a precompiled 1.8 for
Cygwin.  So for future posterity, here it is, courtesy of Google:

  http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/ruby/binaries/cygwin/1.8

Gavin