From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T09:47:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance


On May 23, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> Lisp has a tiny syntax.
>> Lisp has uncountable years of development.
>> Lisp had lots of people who wanted it to go fast, so it goes fast.
>
> The Lisp compiler can optimize in ways that the ruby interpreter  
> cannot.
> (Optional type declarations, for example. Also, list manipulations are
> not method calls.)
>
> -- 
>       vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
>

How about we rewrite the ruby runtime as a combination of macros and  
functions in Lisp, use ParseTree to get the S-Exp representation of a  
ruby program and then feed that into our Lisp compiler? Instant  
speedy ruby! ;)