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author: Torsten
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Well, it has been a good holiday, two months in Indonesia, Bali and diving Komodo. It brought clarity, and so
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i have to start a daunting task.
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When i learned programming at University, they were still teaching Pascal. So when I got to choose c++ in my first
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bigger project that was a real step up. But even i wrestled templates, it was Smalltalk that took my heart
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immediately when i read about it. And I read quite a bit, including the Blue Book about the implementation of it.
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The next disctinct step up was Java, in 1996, and then ruby in 2001. Until i mostly stopped coding in 2004 when i
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moved to the country side and started our <a href="http://villataika.fi/en/index.html"> B&B </a>
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But then we needed web-pages, and before long a pos for our shop, so i was back on the keyboard. And since it was
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a thing i had been wanting to do, I wrote a database.
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Purple was my current idea of an ideal data-store. Save by reachability, automatic loading by traversal
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and schema-free any ruby object saving. In memory, based on Judy, it did about 2000 transaction per second.
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Alas, it didn't have any searching.
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So i bit the bullet and implemented an sql interface to it. After a failed attempt with rails 2 and after 2 major rewrites
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i managed to integrate what by then was called warp into Arel (rails3).
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But while raw throughput was still about the same, when
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it had to go through Arel it crawled to 50 transactions per second, about the same as sqlite.
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This was maybe 2011, and there was not doubt anymore. Not the database, but ruby itself was the speed hog. I aborted.
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In 2013 I bought a Raspberry Pi and off course I wanted to use it with ruby. Alas... Slow pi + slow ruby = nischt gut.
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I gave up.
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So then the clarity came with the solution, build your own ruby. I started designing a bit on the beach already.
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Still, daunting. But maybe just possible....
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