From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2005-02-06T03:50:14+09:00
Subject: Re: lack of reaction to latest ruby implementations

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 03:35:13 +0900, Ryan Davis wrote:
> There is zero reason for most people to compile their entire apps. 
> Bottlenecks are usually a 90/10 thing (or 99/01 really) and are often 
> very structured and algorithmic. There is usually very little reason 
> why those small snippets can't be rewritten to use a nice clean static 
> subset of ruby that can be translated to C.
> 
> As a trivial-but-real example, I point you to the second from the last 
> slide in http://www.zenspider.com/~ryand/Ruby2C.pdf

OK, that's interesting, and it's NOT how I've seen ruby2c described and
presented before.  Show me an incomplete ruby compiler, and I won't give
it a second thought.  Show me a tool to optimize bottlenecks, and I'll be
very interested.

Put this way, ruby2c really shouldn't be lumped together with YARV.  That
doesn't do justice to ruby2c's power.

-- 
Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us

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