I'd need to check with my boss what I can and can't say, and I'm
building up a backlog of talks (I've planned one for the next RORO,
and have one in mind for the following), but I'll give it a go.

Andrew

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds interesting, Andrew. I'm keen to learn more about your tools some time.
>
> Dylan
>
> On Monday, April 26, 2010, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is concurrency an issue for web sites (don't you just get a couple
>> more mongrels or unicorns or animal of some description?) or for other
>> uses?
>>
>> It's sometimes a problem for me. Sometimes you get a metric truckload
>> of DNA sequences, so you'd like to be able to use multiple CPUs.
>> Thankfully, system calls can be done concurrently, so I usually have a
>> glue script that makes system calls to scripts that do much of the
>> data processing, and I have a script that looks at processed data at
>> the end.
>>
>> I might try jruby for bioinformatics purposes some day.
>>
>> Actually, trying it exposed a bioruby issue
>> http://github.com/bioruby/bioruby/issues#issue/6 involving the use of
>> RUBY_PLATFORM. Looking at how RUBY_PLATFORM is used in rails, I
>> discovered a possible issue with rails, which turned out to coincide
>> with ticket 3999.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Julian Doherty
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Slow. Poor concurrency support. Meta programming black magic makes libraries
>>> easy to use, but hard to grok.
>>> That said, it's fast enough for what I want to do, and there are other
>>> tools/languages that integrate well and help with concurrency.
>>>
>>> On 25 April 2010 12:04, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It's a bit confusing, considering that $ sometimes means "global".
>>>>
>>>> I tend to use match objects myself, but that's my conservative nature for
>>>> you.
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > Seriously? I never realised that.  That makes things somewhat better,
>>>> > though
>>>> > rather hacky imho.
>>>> >
>>>> > - Korny
>>>> >
>>>> > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Nicholas Jefferson
>>>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> - Perl-like global operators - especially when it comes to regexps, I
>>>> >>> seem to keep coming back to $1 and the like.  I'd like to think
>>>> >>> there's
>>>> >>> a better way to do this, and maybe it just needs more practise on my
>>>> >>> part, using matcher objects or alternative syntaxes.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> $~, $&, $1, etc. are local:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> def bar
>>>> >>  p [:bar, $~, $&, $1]
>>>> >>  "bar" =~ /(bar)/
>>>> >>  p [:bar, $~, $&, $1]
>>>> >> end
>>>> >>
>>>> >> p [:foo, $~, $&, $1]
>>>> >> "foo" =~ /(foo)/
>>>> >> p [:foo, $~, $&, $1]
>>>> >> bar
>>>> >> p [:foo, $~, $&, $1]
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Nicholas
>>>> >>
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