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- utf8 support (string improvements generally)
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Platforms
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## Platforms
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x86 is up for grabs. I have intentionally started on arm (the most sold cpu) because i do
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this for fun. And my pi is fun.
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@ -19,24 +18,40 @@ this for fun. And my pi is fun.
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There is a ruby intel assembler called wilson out there. Or then there is Metasm, with
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good support for many other cpu's (and a lot more code)
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Compliance
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## Compliance
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Is admittedly a little more fun, but also not really my goal in the near future.
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Is admittedly a little more fun, but also not really my personal goal in the near future.
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If i am really honest about this, i think ruby is a little quirky around the edges and i
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think a lot of that can/should be done as a compatibility layer. Keeping the core clean (and shiny).
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Stdlib
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## Stdlib
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Stdlib is not clean. More like a layer that accumulated over the years.
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Very nice solutions exist for most of the important things. Like celluloid for concurrency. Celluloid-io for
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Very nice solutions exist for most of the important things.
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Like celluloid for concurrency. Celluloid-io for
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good performance io with or without zero-mq. Fiddle looks nice admittedly.
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Interesting
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## Concurrency
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Solving concurrency is up for grabs. Any solution is a start, channels ala go are nice and
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lock free stuff is the ultimate goal.
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## Stary sky
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Iterate:
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1. more cpus (ie intel)
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2. more systems (ie mac)
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3. more syscalls, there are after all some hundreds (most as external gems)
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5. A lot of modern cpu's functionality has to be mapped to ruby and implemented in assembler to be useful
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6. Different sized machines, with different register types ?
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7. on 64bit, there would be 8 bits for types and thus allow for rational, complex, and whatnot
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8. Housekeeping (the superset of gc) is abundant
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9. Any amount of time could be spent on a decent digital tree (see judy). Or possibly Dr.Cliffs hash.
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10. Also better string/arrays would be good.
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11. The minor point of threads and hopefully lock free primitives to deal with that.
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12. Other languages, python at least, maybe others
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And generally optimise and work towards that perfect world (we never seem to be able to attain).
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