[GSoC] [BioRuby] Weekly report #1

[Artem Tarasov]

Chris is right. Currently, it's easier to write everything manually. When
I'll develop some 'best practices' I may put then into compile-time
algorithms and generate bindings from D. (The language has compile-time
introspection but doesn't have run-time one, probably because that would
hurt the performance.)

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Fields, Christopher J <
cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:

> 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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