From: Ben Myles <ben.myles@...>
Date: 2005-10-03T18:37:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Large Ruby Apps ?

On 10/3/05, Matt Pattison <matchbo@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a Master's Thesis and a Google Summer of Code project. It uses
> Ole Agesen's Cartesian Product Algorithm, combined with what the
> author calls "iterative object contour splitting", and converts
> straightforward python code directly into C++ using type inference,
> resulting in a ~ 10x speed up.

I wonder how hard it would be to create a ruby to objc converter? On a
feature by feature comparison, objc appears to come a lot closer than
c or c++ :

http://www.approximity.com/ruby/Comparison_rb_st_m_java.html

But then, I've no idea whether a ruby program converted to objc would
result in higher performance and/or less memory usage.

Ben