From: Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T02:13:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

A couple weeks ago I asked whether YARV could compile most Ruby programs
on Win32 (since I could not figure out a satisfactory answer from web
pages to which I was referred).  I am still hoping that someone can
apprise me as to the viability of doing this at present.  Are
stand-alone Windows executables possible?  Is Ruby 1.9 required or does
1.84 work?  Can most .rbw programs be compiled?  What kind of
performance gain is typical?

Thanks,
Jamal