to make the power of MPI available to Ruby users in a way that fits into the
language's object oriented model. In order to do this, the buffer and datatype
management necessary in the C, C++, and Fortran bindings have been removed.
What this means is that MPI Ruby allows you to treat objects as messages.
PR: ports/80310
Submitted by: Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de>