From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-07-28T10:58:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby documentation generator?

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:55:16 +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
> <austin@halostatue.ca> ha scritto::
>> When I'm done with PDF::Writer, I will be trying to add a PDF
>> generator to RDoc. (PDF::Writer is a native Ruby -- that is, no C
>> extensions required --
> too cool! how fast could it be? I mean, could it be used for real
> time pdf generation (apart from rdoc and the like)?

I'm not quite sure how fast at this point. I am pretty sure it will
require 1.8, but I haven't had a chance to test the latest version
here (I had to restore my system last week and I think that I'm just
now back up to speed). It requires some level of object
transactional support, and the Transaction::Simple that I released a
couple of weeks ago is painfully slow on Win32. Without the
transactional stuff, it doesn't work properly -- but it was
relatively fast on what it does do (~20 seconds to make a 60k
document). The transactional stuff under 1.6 slowed it down to > 1
hour. I will be trying 1.8 tomorrow, I think.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.07.27
                                         * 21.53.21