Speed up that library when you can't C a thing

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Accepted Session
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osb2009-0021
Scheduled: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 from 5:00 – 5:45pm in Morrison

Excerpt

The problem: you're using a modern dynamic language not known for speed, and you've identified a bottleneck. Write it in C? Does that give you the shakes? There are other language options available...

Description

We’ll step through a simple library case, wrapping an Ocaml library and calling it from Ruby. Then we’ll discuss ways to approach this problem for other target slow and fast languages.

Tags

optimization, ocaml, ffi, swig, Ruby

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