From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T05:03:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Rockit abandoned?

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> skrev den Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:03:26 +0900:

>> Its been abandoned for some 2 years but I'm now working on it again.
>> Instead of fixing the old version I've decided to do a new one
>> with a C backend. Expect release in 3 weeks.
>
> Hmm, do I smell speed?
>
Its not top prio but parsing is one of these things
were speed really can matter so yes, I think it will have
enough of it to be generally useful.

My goal now is to generate a Ruby C extension that gives
a parser. I think for many uses this will be good enough.
Long-term, yes, a pure-Ruby solution as an option would
be good (especially to experiment with intelligent
error reporting which is much harder in C) but don't
expect it anytime soon.

Regards,

Robert