A few days ago we released v0.12.0 of gnparser (Go version). This version made it possible to compile gnparser algorithms into C-compatible library. Such library makes it possible to use gnparser with its native speeds in any language that supports binding to C. Such languages inlude Python, Ruby, Java (via JNI), Rust, C, C++ and many others.

We already updated Ruby’s biodiversity parser gem to take benefit of a dramatic speed increase and parsing quality of gnparser.

Here are a quick benchmarks that compare how biodiversity performs before and now:

Program	Version	Full/Simple	Names/min
gnparser	0.12.0	Simple	3,000,000
biodiversity	4.0.1	Simple	2,000,000
biodiversity	4.0.1	Full JSON	800,000
biodiversity	3.5.1	n/a	40,000

With this improved speed Encyclopedia of Life, which is written in Ruby, can process all their names using Ruby in less than 15 minutes.

README file of gnparser contains instructions how to make such c-shared library and biodiversity code is a good example of connecting the library to other languages.