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layout: news
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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
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clarity, and so 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
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c++ in my first bigger project that was a real step up. But even i wrestled templates, it was
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Smalltalk that took my heart 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 distinct step up was Java, in 1996, and then ruby in 2001. Until i mostly stopped coding
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in 2004 when i moved to the country side and started our [B&B](http://villataika.fi/en/index.html)
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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.
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And since it was 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
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traversal and schema-free any ruby object saving. In memory, based on Judy, it did about 2000
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transaction per second. 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
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and after 2 major rewrites 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 it had to go through Arel it crawled to 50
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transactions per second, about the same as sqlite.
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This was maybe 2011, and there was no doubt anymore. Not the database, but ruby itself was the
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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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