From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-05-20T23:04:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15426] Re: native compiler ?

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:20:57PM +0900, Fabrice MARIE wrote:
> Is there a way to compile code written in ruby into C or native binary ?

Yes, there is an application called rb2c 
(http://easter.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hiwada/ruby/rb2c) in the RAA 
(Ruby Application Archive http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html) 
written by Kazuhiro HIWADA.

Caveats:

1) It works only with Ruby 1.4.x (specifically, it doesn't work with Ruby
	1.6.x)
2) The resulting code links to the Ruby lib; the result is that most
   applications won't see a speed improvement and the executables are
	rather large

It worked pretty well for me on Linux, and I may end up using it on AIX to
distribute a scriptlet.

--- SER