Thanks for the replies guys.

By the way, if the initializer is required, why are the attributes needed
too? (or they aren't?)

Thanks,
Shay.

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Jimmy Schementi <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  To clarify things a bit more, the real difference between the two ways is
> performance and cleanness of the .NET code. My guidance would be to
> initially build a ruby front-end API, and call into .NET when needed; the
> cleanest solution IMO but depends on slow reflection for calling into .NET
> code. If you find that the .NET integration is too slow for that particular
> library, then you can move your code over to the generated-initializers
> model that IronRuby's libraries use.
>
>  ~js
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] [
> [email protected]] on behalf of Shri Borde [
> [email protected]]
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:44 PM
>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby C# Extensions
>
>   Tomas, assuming you wanted your library to be C# code only for whatever
> reason, wouldn’t you need to use RubyModuleAttribute etc for various reasons
> (other than performance) to make the library look really Ruby-friendly and
> also be multi-ScriptRuntime-aware? For example, if you wanted a class
> constant, you couldn’t just declare a C# “const” variable as that would be
> appdomain-wide and also read-only. So you have to tag it with
> “RubyContantAttribute”, right?
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Tomas Matousek
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:48 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby C# Extensions
>
>
>
> Ideally Reflection would be fast and we wouldn’t need any workarounds to
> load built-ins fast. But that’s not the case, so we use initializers.
>
>
>
> As for the scenarios you mentioned:
>
> 1. Porting Ruby native extensions
>
> Why not to write them in Ruby with calls to .NET Framework assemblies? Is
> there anything that makes this difficult?
>
>
> 2. Create an IronRuby library in C# in order to improve performance of a
> certain operation
>
> Couldn’t you write the parts whose perf matter in C# code that doesn’t have
> all the Ruby bells and whistles and keep your library written in Ruby?
>
>
>
> Tomas
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Shay Friedman
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 11, 2009 10:26 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby C# Extensions
>
>
>
> By the way, if we're at the subject... Ivan does have a point there, but
> why were the standard libraries written this way?
>
> Thanks,
> Shay.
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Shay Friedman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Right, but this way you have more control on the "translation" of your Dll
> to IronRuby.
>
> Shay.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ivan Porto Carrero <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> But wouldn't you be able to accomplish these scenarios just by requiring a
> C# built dll?
>
>
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>
>    On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Shay Friedman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> 2 samples I can think of -
> 1. Porting Ruby native extensions
> 2. Create an IronRuby library in C# in order to improve performance of a
> certain operation
>
> Shay.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Ivan Porto Carrero <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Just require an assembly should work just as well I guess.
>
>
>
> When would you need to use the RubyClass etc attributes and the
> initializer? What is the added value of those?
> ---
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>
>
>  On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Shay Friedman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to consider allowing to load extensions without the need of
> a library initializer? (another argument in the load_assembly method for
> example)
> Currently, the library initializer makes the whole thing much more
> complicated...
>
> Thanks,
> Shay.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Tomas Matousek <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Basically to avoid reflection when loading the classes and modules.
>
> Tomas
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Shay Friedman
> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 9:14 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby C# Extensions
>
> I found out I needed an initializer...
>
> I have a question - why do we need initializers if we define everything on
> the attributes?
>
> Thanks,
> Shay.
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