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DJ Cole wrote:
| I have pretty much committed to Ruby for several projects - and two
| things make me nervous:
| 1) Ruby seems to be changing fundamental things - like Strings - in 1.9.
| The changes are incompatible and seem fundamental (e.g. enumeration),
| which seems peculiar given the late date in the evolution of Ruby. Why
| make these changes now?
Ruby 1.9 is a testbed of sorts for the eventual Ruby 2.0, and not
considered production ready in any way. For that, stick to the Ruby
1.8.6 branch (1.8.7 backported some possibly breaking changes, search
the archives of the list for the 1.8.7 preview announcements).
| 2) Performance - at least, a few modules, like the default REXML parser.
| This thing took about 10 minutes to parse a simple 2 MB file just once.
| It’s unusable. I had to switch to libxml. Is this a Ruby artifact (e.g.
| fundamentals like regular expressions just aren’t up to snuff) or just a
| bad module?
Probably a Ruby artifact. There is a libxml interface for Ruby, and I
guess there is something similar for other heavy lifting type of stuff.
However, I’ve heard that narray is rather fast, while still written in
pure Ruby, so it is possible to write computationally heavy code in Ruby
that performs well. At least, so I’ve heard, as I haven’t used narray.
In general, Ruby isn’t a speed demon, unless you talk about time spent
developing an app or script.
Phillip G.
Twitter: twitter.com/cynicalryan
Blog: http://justarubyist.blogspot.com
10 years old is a good age to get stuck at.
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