Archive for the ‘Ruby’ Category
Libxml-Ruby vs. REXML in Ruby-MARC
This weekend I reimplemented the XMLReader and XMLWriter classes in ruby-marc using Libxml-Ruby, a Ruby layer over the Libxml2 C library.
Currently, ruby-marc uses REXML, a pure Ruby XML library. Since REXML is built into Ruby, it is convenient. I was curious, though, how much of a performance boost there would be from using [...]