From: Garance A Drosehn <drosihn@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T12:10:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiled version of Ruby

On 11/2/05, zero <web2ed@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this has been discussed before but I would like to know if
> anything has changed in the past 2 years and if anything is on the
> horizon that would allow either byte compilation of Ruby (like Python)
> or <dreaming> native compilation </dreaming>.

You might want to check out the 'ruby2c' project.  It is still in beta-land,
but with it you could at least translate some ruby that you write into C
code, and then run that in combination with standard ruby.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby2c/

(disclaimer: I have not tried ruby2c, I just think it is an interesting and
worthwhile project)

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