From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-04-25T14:26:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14192] Re: python on the smalltalk VM

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Benjamin J. Tilly wrote:

> As for the rest of it, the Smalltalk VM has been through a lot
> more work and optimization than most of the scripting languages.
> Some of the best optimizations in the Java world come from
> Smalltalk.  I am not surprised that those technologies would
> apply to Python.  I am sure things like identifying code
> hotspots at runtime and optimizing them on the fly would work
> wonders for real Ruby programs as well.  (I am also sure that
> it would be a lot of work, but less work if Ruby was largely
> written in Ruby already.)
> 
FWIW, this is the kind of things we intend to be able to support in
RubyVM. Obviously, we're far from there yet...

/Robert