[GSoC] [BioRuby] Weekly report #1

Thu May 24 05:14:20 UTC 2012

I think the mentioned D wrappers on the SWIG page are ANSI C/C++ libraries wrapped for D, not D code/libs/etc wrapped for Ruby, unless I'm mistaken...

chris

On May 23, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Mic wrote:

> 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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