This seem to work: http://pastie.org/1915197 I hope, I build the code the correct way? Also, the speed increase is roughly 1-fold. I am a bit puzzled that Ruby on its own is a tad slow on array accession and bit wise operations. But when is a speed increase big enough to justify moving to Inline C? Btw, is there a method to pretty print the resulting C code? That would be nice for inspection. Morever, I think RubyInline is a bit under documented. The Perl Inline module comes with a very nice cookbook: http://search.cpan.org/~sisyphus/Inline-0.48/C/C.pod http://search.cpan.org/~sisyphus/Inline-0.48/C/C-Cookbook.pod This RubyInline tool is really cool I must say! Cheers, Martin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.