I've forwarded this thread to Eric, who wrote the ropes gems, to see what ideas he could throw to this discussion. Sorry I'm not any more informed than this.
David On Nov 3, 11:59 am, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I quickly grabbed a copy of the "rope" > library.https://rubyforge.org/projects/rope/ > > I was able to get *most* of the tests passing... and most importantly > I got the benchmarks running. Basically I replaced the Buffer's > internal string (lots of appends) with the "rope" library. > > Unfortunately, instead of a speed boost.... we are 2x slower. > > I might be doing something wrong in there though. > > Check out the code athttp://svn.hamptoncatlin.com/haml/branches/ropey > > I'm going to run profiler on it and see what I can figure out. Anyone > else want to make a stab? Hackers--- start your engines! > > -hampton. > > On 11/3/07, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > David- > > > Yeah, we'd definitely be interested in learning more about that. > > > Anything to make our baby faster! > > > Have any good links on the subject? > > > -hampton. > > > On 11/3/07, David Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > First, the disclaimer. I haven't used HAML or Sass in about 2 > > > projects. It looks like you guys have done a lot to make things zippy > > > in the last little while. > > > > Here's another 2 cents to add to the discussion. I'm at RubyConf > > > right now, and the discussion on ropes really was interesting for this > > > kind of problem. They were talking about Erb as a good place to apply > > > ropes, for performance reasons. Is this something you'd be interested > > > in applying? > > > > The basic idea is that a string can be stored as a tree internally. > > > Operations like parsing, appending, finding, etc. are much faster with > > > ropes than with strings. > > > > The Confreaks guys have captured RubyConf on video, so anyone should > > > be able to see the whole ropes discussion soon. There were also some > > > other base data types discussed in the room at the conference that > > > could be useful. > > > > Anyway, this looks like it'd be a productive conversation to have. > > > > Cheers, > > > > David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
