On Oct 26, 9:46 pm, Clifford Heath <n... / spam.please.net> wrote: > ry dahl wrote: > > There are other attempts at providing this functionality in Ruby but > > mine is very simple and fast. > > Have you compared the performance of your library, Sean Chittendon's > previous library that also used the C back-end, and my pure-Ruby gem? > > The disk I/O time dominates, so the difference in performance is almost > imperceptible (or at least, depends on other things like the availability > of physical memory, etc). > > The pure Ruby version is much more convenient, of course. That's why I > wrote it to replace Sean's version... I don't think we needed still a > third version. > > Clifford Heath. Clifford, What's the URL for your all ruby code? Mike B.