From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-09-14T13:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Perl to Ruby

Arich Chanachai <macrocosm@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> Someone suggested that JRuby could be layed onto Groovy to take 
> advantage of Groovy's bytecode compilation.  Anyone here know anything 
> about the feasibility of this or whether this would achieve the speed I 
> desire?  I couldn't find anywhere on the Groovy website what the speed 
> comparability was between it and pure Java, but perhaps I am blind.

If you're specifically looking for something to run atop the JVM, I'd
say Groovy was a better bet than JRuby. Also, don't miss Scala
(http://scala.epfl.ch/index.html) which does compile to bytecode, and
which has a .NET compiler planned too.

martin