Brutal · That bad weather I wrote about a couple weeks ago is still bad, the baby and I are both sick; things could be lots worse but complaining is a sacred human right. With pictures ... [1 comment]
RX + YARV · I’m in about round eight of my duel with Ruby, trying to make a correct automaton-based parser run as fast as a regexp-based one that has a casual attitude toward the rules. (Our story thus far here and here.) I thought I’d try out YARV, the heir-apparent Ruby VM. [Update: Hah! Improved RX a little more.] ... [8 comments]
