Great, good luck Patrick! - Matt
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Patrick Thomson <[email protected]> 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 >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >
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