Port of Perl's Parse::AFP?

Ruby
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Has anyone had the need to port the Perl library Parse::AFP to Ruby?
I’m trying to use the Perl version right now and I’m having some nasty
memory usage issues (iterating through a 21MB AFP file consumes over
1GB of RAM). Since I dont know Perl very well, a Ruby version would
really help me out if it didnt have the same issues.

Thanks,
Scott

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On Feb 15, 2006, at 18:08, Scott wrote:

Has anyone had the need to port the Perl library Parse::AFP to Ruby?
I’m trying to use the Perl version right now and I’m having some nasty
memory usage issues (iterating through a 21MB AFP file consumes over
1GB of RAM). Since I dont know Perl very well, a Ruby version would
really help me out if it didnt have the same issues.

Just as a quick note Parse::AFP was written by Audrey Tang, of Pugs
fame. She said in this interview:

 http://perl.com/lpt/a/2005/03/03/pugs_interview.html

that the problem in the Perl module was that Perl 5 did not have copy-
on-write by then. She rewrote it in Haskell and the difference in
performance and LOCs was really remarkable.

I don’t know whether this, in her opinion, intrisic limitation is
found in Ruby as of today.

– fxn

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On 2/16/06, Xavier N. [email protected] wrote:

that the problem in the Perl module was that Perl 5 did not have copy-
on-write by then. She rewrote it in Haskell and the difference in
performance and LOCs was really remarkable.

I don’t know whether this, in her opinion, intrisic limitation is
found in Ruby as of today.

Ruby’s strings are COW.

-austin

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