From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T12:44:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance


On May 23, 2006, at 11:15 PM, James Britt wrote:

> 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! ;)
>>>
> [snip code]
> Topher's article[0] at RC&S might be of interest, too.
>
>
> [0] http://www.artima.com/rubycs/articles/patterns_sexp_dsls.html
>

I was actually reading this earlier today, which brought it to mind.

> -- 
> James Britt
>
> "People want simple stories."
>