Re: [tlug] Darcs and the Lack of Haskell Programmers

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Dave Brown writes:
>  > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:22:59PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>  > > [2]  My theory is that git was originally a few low-level C programs
>  > > for manipulating a fast object database, with the UI built up from
>  > > scripts.  I think this heritage makes it likely that it is much better
>  > > factored for the kind of abuse a server environment will dish out than
>  > > the user-pandering programs like Darcs, Mercurial, and Bazaar.
>  > 
>  > Ironically, github saw large performance gains when they quit using the
>  > C programs and switched to a pure-Ruby git library[1].
>
> Surely you don't expect me to be surprised!  But ... what do you think
> the odds are that they *could* switch to a pure-Ruby library for Darcs,
> Mercurial, or Bazaar?
>   

Not something I have the time or inclination to try but if it can be 
done in C it can be done in Ruby, though it would make more sense to 
factor out the performance critical or nasty parts to a binary 
extension.  Has anyone written haskell ruby extensions ;)

Edward