[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby... suitable for my project?

[Richard Kilmer]

Just so you know, MacRuby is not production-stable (yet).  If you need  
something for production I don't think MacRuby is a good idea right now.

That said, I wanted to respond to this part of your message:


On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Greg Willits wrote:

> One of the problems I have with the MRI is rather slow performance
> when reconstituting serialized data. I was hoping I could pre-process
> a bunch of data, serialize it, store to disk, and recall it as needed.
>
> One example is 11MB of text data that I load and reorganize into an
> array of hashes (45,000 rows, about 20 fields). Marshaled to disk
> that's about 11Mb of data as well. It takes several seconds
> (depending on platform) to rebuild that. Also reloading that, MRI
> consumes vastly more RAM than just the 11MB. I'm wondering if MacRuby
> would perform any better? That file is one of hundreds ranging from
> 1MB to 120MB (with 20-30MB being average) that would be loaded during
> processing, and many of them need to be resident in RAM at the same
> time along with the WIP data structures.

Having done a lot of this type of stuff I would recommend that you  
don't Marshal your data but "serialize to source"  I usually have  
to_ruby methods on my objects that write out source that would  
reconstitute them.  I found that its WAY faster (like 10x) to parse in  
generated source then Marshal.load.  If you want to talk more about  
this feel free to email me directly off-list.

Best,

Rich