[MacRuby-devel] zlib status

Matt Aimonetti mattaimonetti at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 15:14:33 PDT 2009


Great, good luck Patrick!

- Matt

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Patrick Thomson <pthomson at 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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