From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-20T03:51:59+09:00
Subject: Re: meta_parse: my first metaprogram

> I usually try to avoid those inline strings. I don't like them.
> As long as you don't pass a block in the call to the
> dynamically defined method, you can use "define_method"
> instead.
>

Seconded, metaprogramming code like that will get a major performance hit if 
you whack YARV at it. Unless there's a shaman embedding voodoo chants into 
YARV code for optimization of variable evals.

(Sidenote: it seems #eval is slightly faster than #define_method in trivial 
benchmarks.)

David Vallner