[BioRuby] [GSoC] Weekly report #1

[Mic]

D to Ruby: http://www.swig.org/compare.html

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Artem Tarasov <lomereiter at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> here's my report about the past week:
> http://lomereiter.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/gsoc-weekly-report-1/
>
> Brief summary:
>
> 1) BioRuby unit tests and Rubinius bugs — I posted 2 issues in Rubinius
> bugtracker, and one of them is already solved. Rubinius in 1.8 mode should
> now pass all tests. The situation with 1.9 mode is not that great, but I'm
> working on it.
>
> 2) I started to collect D optimization tricks on github wiki page.
> Currently, it contains just 6 tips, but this number is going to grow.
> Probably, another page will be created soon to keep best practices of
> connecting Ruby and D. Since my project and Marjan's one have a lot in
> common, I think it's important for us to not waste time on something that
> already have been investigated.
>
> 3) During the week, I learned a bit about BDD and Cucumber, enjoyed it, and
> wrote my first two features.
>
> 4) Measurements of object instantiation time in Ruby suggest that exposing
> low-level D functions via FFI makes little sense. I'm going to discuss with
> mentors which high-level functions should be available, and make that into
> Cucumber features.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Artem
>
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