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Nice article, but Ruby wouldn't have been my language of choice for illustrating HPC concepts.
by river_styx 18y ago
Nice article, but Ruby wouldn't have been my language of choice for illustrating HPC concepts.
- demallien 18y agoWhy ever not? If you're writing an application in Ruby, you're going to need the fastest algorithms on the block to make up for the interpreter's less than optimal performance. I would think that Ruby (and other dynamic script languages) need this type of technique more than just about any other environment.
- tlrobinson 18y agoThe Bloom filter algorithm is written in C anyway... http://github.com/igrigorik/bloomfilter/tree/master/ext/sbloomfilter.c http://github.com/igrigorik/bloomfilter/tree/master/ext/sblo...