From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-05-16T00:31:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15170] Re: Discussion on new Ruby features

Christian Szegedy <szegedy@or.uni-bonn.de> writes:

> Basically, I don't think that too much optimization is possible without
> giving the compiler some hints...

I also depends on what you're trying to optimize. For example, in many
long running Ruby scripts, the major slowdown comes not from method
dispatching but rather from garbage collection (this should improve in
1.7). Before we travel too far down a particular path, perhaps we
should we doing some experiments to see where optimization would have
the most effect.


Dave