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I'm definitely not great at this kind of stuff, but I'll give it a try ... Check out the Amatch ruby gem ... it can compute the hamming distance ... might be e

• potatolicious 17y ago
  Except doing this through Ruby is a guaranteed bet to not get done in time.
  • sho 17y ago
    I agree that the gem mentioned might not be suitable, but Ruby could still have a part to play, especially as it allows direct use of native libraries, or just managing processes running on the OS. Someone doing this should probably write the fast-spinning cogs in C, but it might be worth using Ruby to manage threads, processes, data segments, etc - indeed, maybe prototype the C code there first too. You'd gain an awful lot of convenience for very little overhead.