From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T12:15:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

Douglas Livingstone wrote:
> 2006/5/24, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com>:
> 
>>
>> 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! ;)
>>
> 
> With an install of ParseTree:
> 
> $ cat example.rb
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> def sum(a, b)
>  return a+b
> end
> 
> a = 3
> b = 4
> c = pythag(a, b)
> puts c
> 
> $ cat lispify.rb
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> 
> def lispify(code)
>  code.gsub!(/[:,]/, '')
>  code.gsub!(/\[/, '(')
>  code.gsub!(/\]/, ')')
> end

Topher's article[0] at RC&S might be of interest, too.


[0] http://www.artima.com/rubycs/articles/patterns_sexp_dsls.html

-- 
James Britt

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