[MacRuby-devel] zlib status

[Patrick Thomson]

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
>>