** Note: ** This project is EOL’ed.
Wraps rb_add_event_hook so you can write fast ruby event hook processors w/o the speed penalty that comes with set_trace_func. Calls back into ruby so you don’t have to write C.
% ruby demo.rb
# of iterations = 1000000
user system total real
null_time 0.120000 0.000000 0.120000 ( 0.125279)
ruby time 0.560000 0.000000 0.560000 ( 0.562834)
event hook 3.160000 0.010000 3.170000 ( 3.175361)
set_trace_func 34.530000 0.100000 34.630000 ( 34.942785)
gem install event_hook
git clone git://github.com/seattlerb/event_hook