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awesome. its much easier to see whats happening with the whole system

imagine the same sort of thing for object interaction, method calls and db queries that showed the most commonly used and costliest, making it much easier to see what should be optimized. perhaps this already exists?

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----- Original Message ----
From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:22:51 PM
Subject: Re: your mail

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:42:05PM +0900, John Joyce wrote:

Check this out. An interesting example of Ruby in use.
Data visualization.

http://www.fudgie.org/

It's already stirred up a hornet's nest on slashdot with plenty of
juvenile comments (some accurate) and lots nay sayers who don't see
the potential for creativity in Ruby and data visualization
illustrated here.

Holy cow, it's too much fun to watch this program work. . . .

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Kent Beck: "I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I
just didn't know it would be called Ruby."

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I tried out something like this with the GC subsystem, but I ended up with poor performance because I wasn't able to output data fast enough.

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On Oct 9, 2007, at 14:49 , Al Brown wrote:

awesome. its much easier to see whats happening with the whole system

imagine the same sort of thing for object interaction, method calls and db queries that showed the most commonly used and costliest, making it much easier to see what should be optimized. perhaps this already exists?

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