From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-07-24T08:18:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby to Objective-C Source Translator Easier?

It might make more sense to adapt some of the implementation tricks
from POC or the GCC libobjc runtime to get the Ruby runtime overhead
down closer to that of Objective-C. However, in order to get
competitive performance, you're still going to have to either JIT or
inline C code in places; doing runtime method dispatch for operations
on native ints and chars is never going to be as fast as a compiled
version.

Lennon