I'm looking for a Sparse Matrix library I can use from Ruby. I'm currently using the GNU Scientific Library bindings provided by the "gsl" gem, but my application would be better optimized if I used a dedicated sparse matrix library. I've investigated the linalg and NArray libraries. None of the these three libraries support sparse-matrix optimised storage or operations.
Is there anything out there I've missed - or an existing C library that may be possible to write bindings for? I'd prefer the former to that latter, as I haven't written C bindings in Ruby before, but I would be willing to attempt it.
Like Bill mentioned above, the a pure ruby interpretation is going to be slower than you want, but might be good for prototyping. I have been working on just such a library over at https://github.com/hmcfletch/sparse-matrix
I haven't released it as a gem yet and there is more work to be done on it, but take a look at if you stil have a need.