Comments on: Compiling Ruby as a Visual Studio Solution

By: çelik kapı

çelik kapı — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:31:19 +0000

thankssssss

By: kotiteatteri

kotiteatteri — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:42:44 +0000

Cool. I didn’t know you could do that with a Visual Studio

By: Washu

Washu — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:15:05 +0000

The whole codebase is riddled with undefined behavior, and unfortunately that undefinedness does crop up when building it against platforms it wasn’t designed for (aka, GCC 3.x + 32 bit CPU).

By: Mick West

Mick West — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:42:26 +0000

There’s some surprisingly hair-raising code under the hood with Ruby. Like this in rb_call0 (called from method_call, so executed every time a Ruby object’s method is called)

if ((++tick & 0xff) == 0) { CHECK_INTS; /* better than nothing */ stack_check(); rb_gc_finalize_deferred(); }

“Better that nothing”. Cowboys!

By: Washu

Washu — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:52:00 +0000

Having done a bit of Ruby work in the past, I must say that their C interface sucks. The fact that the language isn't even remotely 64 bit compatible (although 1.9/2.0 are "going to be", I've yet to see them make progress on that front). I do like the language though, it's quite fun much like Python.