On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Patrick Thomson <pthomson@apple.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm working on porting ext/zlib to MacRuby right now. I took a look at zliby - though it's certainly nice to have a zlib implementation in pure Ruby, zliby seems to be kind of dead in the water (according to its RubyForge page, it hasn't been updated in almost a year).
Additionally, zliby is orders of magnitude slower than ext/zlib (decompressing a 2MB gzipped MP3 with ext/zlib took 0.064 seconds with ext/zlib and 73.909 seconds (yes, over a minute) with zliby).
Porting the library will take a little while, as for performance reasons zlib needs to use ByteStrings. So be patient, and it'll be here before you know it. :-)

-- Patrick

> We are almost there, Etc, Zlib and Socket are still missing.
> Last I heard, Laurent had a "plan" for Zlib, knowing him, it's probably a
> great and efficient idea.
> Make sure to check with him before starting on that. (running some
> benchmarks on zliby wouldn't hurt anyone)
>
> Once function_method will be working again, many more stdlibs should also
> be in a better shape (Math, CMath etc..)
>
> There is a lot of work being done, unfortunately not much we can see yet.
>
> - Matt

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