From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T12:25:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

On 5/22/06, Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui@fcc.gov> wrote:
> 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?

This is not the purpose of YARV. YARV is not *yet* aiming for an AOT
compiler, but that's a long-term goal as I understand it. Stand-alone
executables may or may not ever be possible in that sense. YARV does
not work with Ruby 1.8.4.

YARV is still a work in progress and should only be used for
experiments, not production.

-austin
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