07:15 <postmodern> hello, if i've figured out how to optionally build C extensions for a ruby library via some hackery, should I still blacklist building native extensions for JRuby? Or has JRuby's C extension API improved? Or should I look into some new fangled way to also build Java Extensions for JRuby?

07:24 <kares[m]> postmodern: C-extensions are defunct on JRuby, most gems provide a Java extension when necessary (or use ffi)

07:26 <postmodern> kares[m], good to know. Next question, would native Java code that does CRC calculation be faster than pure Ruby code that gets optimized by the JVM?

07:26 <postmodern> basically just doing lots of bit-math in a for loop

08:22 <kares[m]> I think tons of bit math might be faster in Java but it depends - you should measure in a micro-benchmark

08:39 <kares[m]> henry_bone: could you try `mvn clean package` on the 1.1-stable branch

08:40 <kares[m]> there's some issues with specs boot but you can skip that using `mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true package`

08:40 <kares[m]> otherwise building as expected

10:05 <henry_bone> thanks kares, I'll see how that goes

10:22 <henry_bone> 1.1-stable and skipping tests got me to "BUILD SUCCESS"

10:22 <henry_bone> thanks

14:00 <headius[m]> postmodern: most likely faster in Java but as kares said it's worth measuring

14:01 <headius[m]> No need to look for a new-fangled way to build extensions... there's rake-compiler out there that alreadty knows how to do it and there's maven plugins if you want to go that route. JRuby extensions are always built ahead of time, not locally, so no compiler is needed at install

14:03 <headius[m]> If you're using a for loop it will definitely be faster in Java because that requires calling `each` and a block dispatch per iteration. A while loop would be significantly faster, but still probably not as fast as native code

14:28 <headius[m]> https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/fddrbf/jruby_on_windows_day_0_install_and_hello_world/

15:06 <lopex> jeez, new reddit is unreadable, I use https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/

15:19 <headius[m]> wow ambitious contribution: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/pull/6106

15:20 <headius[m]> enebo: I added my review... it will need a bit more work but nice to have it on the way

15:46 <enebo[m]> headius: yeah nice...

15:52 <lopex> shouldnt there be arity checks there ? https://github.com/jruby/jruby/pull/6106/commits/1747b4c079712ca3121b74d682dbc59d223e259a#diff-23c678f2aa3fa3a91ae342216b426346R958

15:54 <enebo[m]> lopex: for newArgs?

15:55 <lopex> for extraction

15:55 <lopex> aah

15:55 <lopex> stupid me

15:58 <enebo[m]> feels like scanStepArgs may be doing an extra boxing but it is not worth asking until it is further along

17:12 <headius[m]> this PR is what prompted me to tweet about WIP PRs

17:12 <headius[m]> while I was reviewing an additional commit even came in

17:14 <headius[m]> I'm doing a round of merges of smaller things we said we'd land in 9.3 today

17:14 <headius[m]> green stuff

17:14 <headius[m]> trim that PR backlog a bit

17:15 <headius[m]> then I'm thinking I should see about getting 2.6 greener

18:00 <headius[m]> I think we should shoot for 9.3 before RailsConf if possible

18:00 <headius[m]> but that's a lot of work to do in just about two months

18:35 <headius[m]> Nice!