[Ruby] How to patch ruby-mysql bindings?

[Ryan Davis]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Dan Harms wrote:

> Fair enough.  No, I haven't measured any bottlenecks yet.  I am
> working on an application that is importing over 500K records daily
> with multiple updates per record, and thought this might be a
> pre-emptive attack on my part.  I'll get some more specific numbers to
> benchmark against.

That is only 6 per second. I wouldn't worry about it. Tackle the real  
problems as they come up.

> Is patching the bindings generally not recommended, or just time
> intensive, so not worth it unless absolutely necessary?

It isn't necessarily time itensive, but it does become a maintenance  
nightmare even if patching software is old hat for you. If you are  
new to it, it can get messy/bad.