ffi-life
by Andrea Fazzi http://github.com/remogatto/ffi-life
ffi-life is yet another implementation of The Game Of Life. The program is derived from my solution to Ruby Quiz #193. The interesting thing about ffi-life is that it is a first real usage example of ffi-inliner a library to run C code from Ruby through Ruby-FFI. ffi-life is shipped with a naive benchmark that compares the fast ffi-inliner version against the pure Ruby version (see the BENCHMARKS section below). A little injection of portable C for a big improvement in speed!
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Text based!
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It uses
ffi-inlinerfor very fast cells generation -
It is multiVM: give it a whirl with JRuby and appreciate how fast is it!
Simply open a terminal and run:
ffi-life
For more options execute:
ffi-life --help
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ffi-inliner >= 0.2.1
git clone git://github.com/remogatto/ffi-life cd ffi-life rake gem:install
Here below there are some benchmark results running ffi-life with MRI Ruby 1.8.7 on my MacBook Core 2 2.16GHz.
andrea@ganimoide:~/src/ffi-life$ ruby bench/bench.rb
user system total real
[ffi-inliner] w: 100 h: 100 ticks: 10 1.450000 0.220000 1.670000 ( 1.696030)
[ffi-inliner[ w: 60 h: 60 ticks: 10 0.520000 0.060000 0.580000 ( 0.584314)
user system total real
[ruby] w: 100 h: 100 ticks: 10 5.200000 0.560000 5.760000 ( 5.812291)
[ruby] w: 60 h: 60 ticks: 10 1.860000 0.210000 2.070000 ( 2.086663)
And it’s even faster on JRuby!
andrea@ganimoide:~/src/ffi-life$ jruby bench/bench.rb
user system total real
[ffi-inliner] w: 100 h: 100 ticks: 10 0.970000 0.000000 0.970000 ( 0.970000)
[ffi-inliner[ w: 60 h: 60 ticks: 10 0.310000 0.000000 0.310000 ( 0.310000)
user system total real
[ruby] w: 100 h: 100 ticks: 10 2.100000 0.000000 2.100000 ( 2.100000)
[ruby] w: 60 h: 60 ticks: 10 0.692000 0.000000 0.692000 ( 0.692000)
(The MIT License)
Copyright © 2009 Andrea Fazzi
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