plans for world domination [ruby style]

[rogerdpack]

I'm almost wondering if rubinius would be a better match for the
optimization stuffs, because in MRI...

when you do IO#puts, it actually internally does several ruby calls,
like rb_funcall xxx

If we want to avoid ruby func calls, because they're slow, you can
convert rubinius' internals to straight C, but not MRI.
I.e. with MRI the internals are still a bit slow.
Maybe I should chat with the rubinius guys about it.
-r

[rogerdpack]

> when you do IO#puts, it actually internally does several ruby calls,
> like rb_funcall xxx

looks like IO#puts only does one extra call internally

["c-call", "go.rb", 2, :puts, #<Binding:0x2964e70>, Kernel]
["c-call", "go.rb", 2, :write, #<Binding:0x2964e28>, IO]

so maybe this isn't such a huge problem.

My next question is...why is regex lookup on 1.9 twice the speed of
1.8?

[Caleb Clausen]

rb_funcalls in c code can also be analyzed by type induction. I've not
spent a lot of time thinking about that because its (I assume) a
relatively minor cpu user and it requires another completely different
mechanism in order the accomplish the induction and associated rewriting.

[Caleb Clausen]

rogerdpack wrote:
> My next question is...why is regex lookup on 1.9 twice the speed of
> 1.8?

oniguruma?