From: "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...>
Date: 2008-03-29T00:29:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby do not optimize code at all?

We can redefine Fixnum#* in Ruby.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@gmail.com> wrote:
 > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@gmail.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Heesob Park <phasis@gmail.com> wrote:
 > >  > Hi,
 > >  >
 > >  >  I do not undertand why ruby doesn't do any optimization at all during
 > >  >  parsing time.
 > >  >  Some optimization maybe affects debugging process.
 > >  >  Nevertheless, it seems "Constant folding" is not harmful but helpful.

So "Constant folding" is harmful.