From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-12T23:52:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01315] Re: Ruby: An open source gem from Japan

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01314] Re: Ruby: An open source gem from Japan"
    on 00/02/12, "Bryce Dooley" <thecrow@cyberdude.com> writes:

|I read this in the article:
|" It is always possible to call the interpreted code with a compiler later
|to increase execution speed."
|
|Is that true?  If so, how?  Or am I misunderstanding something?

I'm not sure what she was thinking of, but maybe either of following:

  * making extensions for Ruby is easy, so you can reimplement the
    bottleneck into extension library later.

  * experimental Ruby-to-C translator and JIT compiler of x86 are
    available, you can increase execution speed by using them.

  * she was thinking of something else.