From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-05-23T20:44:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance On 5/22/06, Jim Weirich wrote: > Austin Ziegler wrote: > > 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. > Hmmmm ... an AOT is mentioned in the 2004 RubyConf slides > (http://zenspider.com/dl/rubyconf2004/RubyConf2004_YARV_pub.pdf, slide > 14 and the diagram on slide 15).[1] According to the diagram, the AOT > will produce C source code. Interestings > > Ahhh, you did say *yet*. Ok. I wonder if the plans have changed from > these old slides. Yeah. The emphasis for YARV -- as I understand it -- is being Rite. Then being an AOT compiler. ;) I think that Eric is right though, YARV will probably not produce stand-alone Ruby executables, even with C source for that. It will produce code that can be compiled and linked against a Ruby run-time (the VM). -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca