It would be useful to have an extension for managing time stamps and ranges at C level, to perform things faster and avoid bloat by using the ruby Time class.
We did talk about having matrices that could be keyed by strings instead of integers. I think the basic idea would just be to use Ruby hashes to convert whatever datatype to consecutive integers.
It would be useful to have an extension for managing time stamps and ranges at C level, to perform things faster and avoid bloat by using the ruby
Time
class.Maybe something on the lines of this: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.datetime.html