mandelbrot Matz's Ruby #3 program

#  The Computer Language Benchmarks Game
#  https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/
#
#  contributed by Karl von Laudermann
#  modified by Jeremy Echols
#  modified by Detlef Reichl
#  modified by Joseph LaFata
#  modified by Peter Zotov

size = ARGV.shift.to_i

puts "P4\n#{size} #{size}"

byte_acc = 0
bit_num = 0

y = 0
while y < size
  ci = (2.0*y/size)-1.0

  x = 0
  while x < size
    zrzr = zr = 0.0
    zizi = zi = 0.0
    cr = (2.0*x/size)-1.5
    escape = 0b1

    z = 0
    while z < 50
      tr = zrzr - zizi + cr
      ti = 2.0*zr*zi + ci
      zr = tr
      zi = ti
      # preserve recalculation
      zrzr = zr*zr
      zizi = zi*zi
      if zrzr+zizi > 4.0
        escape = 0b0
        break
      end
      z += 1
    end

    byte_acc = (byte_acc << 1) | escape
    bit_num += 1

    # Code is very similar for these cases, but using separate blocks
    # ensures we skip the shifting when it's unnecessary, which is most cases.
    if (bit_num == 8)
      print byte_acc.chr
      byte_acc = 0
      bit_num = 0
    elsif (x == size - 1)
      byte_acc <<= (8 - bit_num)
      print byte_acc.chr
      byte_acc = 0
      bit_num = 0
    end
    x += 1
  end
  y += 1
end
    

NOTES:
64-bit Ubuntu quad core
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux]
 
So old that I haven't been able to get rubygems to work
no backport, no gmp


Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:47:27 GMT

COMMAND LINE:
/usr/bin/ruby mandelbrot.mri-3.mri 16000

(BINARY) PROGRAM OUTPUT NOT SHOWN