On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Andrew Hunt wrote:
>
> The first version of the MSVC version of the Ruby installer
> is now available at:
>
> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ruby-install.html
>
> Note that this does *not* use Cygwin, so some I/O functionality
> will not be available.
>

Thanks for providing this !

I just downloaded and installed your package. One thing concerns me.
I guess it falls under the label "I/O functionality": Ruby is still
*terribly* slow reading large files (about 60 times slower than
Perl).

I posted a question about this in December last year
[ruby-talk:27728], and got an answer from U.Nakamura [ruby-talk:27778]:

> We've already known this fact, and fixed it on Ruby 1.7.

I don't know any details of how the development of 1.7.* is related
to the 1.6.* line, but I would have hoped that such an *important*
fix would have been added back to the 1.6.* line (or 1.8 released
very soon).

Until this thing have been fixed, it's hard to use the pre-built
Ruby 166 exe, for anything but toy-projects ....


/Johan Holmberg