Hey Patrick,
How about the getting the ffi zlib implementation to work? Seems to me
that it would kill two birds with one stone, i.e. getting FFI in a
more usable state and a C backed zlib implementation.
Eloy
On 18 aug 2009, at 23:52, Patrick Thomson wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm working on porting ext/zlib to MacRuby right now. I took a look
at zliby - though it's certainly nice to have a zlib implementation
in pure Ruby, zliby seems to be kind of dead in the water (according
to its RubyForge page, it hasn't been updated in almost a year).
Additionally, zliby is orders of magnitude slower than ext/zlib
(decompressing a 2MB gzipped MP3 with ext/zlib took 0.064 seconds
with ext/zlib and 73.909 seconds (yes, over a minute) with zliby).
Porting the library will take a little while, as for performance
reasons zlib needs to use ByteStrings. So be patient, and it'll be
here before you know it. :-)
-- Patrick
> We are almost there, Etc, Zlib and Socket are still missing.
> Last I heard, Laurent had a "plan" for Zlib, knowing him, it's
probably a
> great and efficient idea.
> Make sure to check with him before starting on that. (running
some
> benchmarks on zliby wouldn't hurt anyone)
>
> Once function_method will be working again, many more stdlibs
should also
> be in a better shape (Math, CMath etc..)
>
> There is a lot of work being done, unfortunately not much we
can see yet.
>
> - Matt
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