From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2002-08-22T22:11:58+09:00 Subject: Re: [Cleanup?] Int vs Long In message "Re: [Cleanup?] Int vs Long" on 02/08/22, Ryan Davis writes: | |Is any work being done to speed up certain aspects of ruby? IKEGAMI Daisuke is working on faster bignum multiplication using better algorithms, e.g. Karatsuba's. Takaaki Tateishi's optimization module is also an interesting approach. I myself have plan to make bytecode VM for Ruby named Rite. matz.