Martin Pirker <crf / sbox.tu-graz.ac.at> wrote: >> The Nilsimsa algorithmen is a digest technique for determining the >> similarity of text messages (e.g. spam detection...) > > 100% Ruby port (try 1) > http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=664 In the middle of the night Steve Lewis kindly donated interfaces to the original C core - Thank you! You now have the option of running pure Ruby (300 times slower than C), or if you compile the native extension it runs about C speed. Both cores produce results matching the standalone C version (here on Linux x86..), so I guess it's bugfree now :-) Martin