[CM] Newbie learning. . . . CM / CLM-3 / SND / Scheme???

[Andrzej Kopec]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:53:06AM +0200, Michael Scholz wrote:
> Hi, Andrzej!
>
> > I'm a newbe  in Snd & co. I compiled snd with ruby support and I wonder
> > if that was a good decision. I want to ask whether snd-ruby has same
> > possibilities as guile version? I suppose there is nothing like
> > rt_compile in my snd-ruby; also I wonder if something like snd-ls is
> > achievable with ruby? Or 3D spectrogram from the manual (grfsnd.html)?
>
> Nearly the full functionality of snd-guile can you expect with
> snd-ruby.  For real time action you may check out the RubyInline
> package from Ryan Davis (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinline/).
> You may find translation examples guile->ruby in *.rb files.  If you
> find bugs in any *.rb file or you have special needs, please let me
> know, though at the time I have no running snd-ruby, but that's a
> different story.
>
> Mike

So, let's say I'm convinced to stay with ruby. But how is it with
speed and resources usage? Isn't ruby much slower than scheme(guile)?

And about ruby-inline: are there any examples of usage achievable
somewhere? If I recall correctly ruby-inline must be given C/C++ code,
so it would by precious to have such examples available.

thnx for reply
ak