From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2005-10-05T08:32:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Interest in Boost::Ruby


On Sep 30, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Phlip wrote:

> Eric Hodel is probably the best C language bonding expert. Here's  
> one of his
> blogs showing "Ruby written in C":
>
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/drbrain/2005/05/03/

Um... FYI. That code is a pure/1:1 translation from a ruby version of  
factorial to a C version of the same thing, using ruby-C internals  
only. It is even slightly slower than running the ruby version. It is  
only meant as a proof-of-concept (towards an automatic obfuscator).

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