Re: [wmii] More about Rii

Daniel Waeber wrote:
> Because of the change in topic, I started a new thread for Rii:

Since "Rii" is just Ruby bindings for the C-language libixp, you
might consider naming it libixp-ruby instead (see
http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/getting-started.html#choosing-a-name).
Then we can have libixp-python and libixp-lua and so on.

> First of all I wanted to look into the depth of ruby. I think it is a
> very nice feature to be able to write low-level/faster code, so it
> directly can be executed on the cpu. So I just wanted to test how ruby
> is designed and what it is like to write ruby in C.

Did you use SWIG?

> It worked fine and I have already implemented the pure libixp calls. I
> just have to read and test some other ruby-C features (like ruby-threads
> in C) and my first goal to know more about the depth of ruby will be
> accomplished. And because it is usable with wmii, perhaps someone else
> wants to use it ;)

Yeah I would be interested in using it when I start hacking wmii
again after school is over [I must wait another 3 months :-(].

> Here is a first test of the speed, reading /client/sel/props 10000 times
> user system total real
> rii - single fid 0.070000 0.050000 0.120000 ( 0.551429)
> rii - open,read,close 0.160000 0.160000 0.320000 ( 1.503666)
> ruby-ixp 8.730000 0.730000 9.460000 ( 20.393708)
> wmiir in sh 0.000000 0.000000 24.030000 (140.062003)

Sweet! Looks promising.

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