From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T06:08:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

"Douglas Livingstone" <rampant@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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! ;)

> ((defn
>  sum
>  (scope
>   (block
>    (args a b)
>    (return (call (lvar a) + (array (lvar b)))))))
> (lasgn a (lit 3))
> (lasgn b (lit 4))
> (lasgn c (fcall pythag (array (lvar a) (lvar b))))
> (fcall puts (array (lvar c))))
>
> So, it looks like Lisp to me! Now, some macros?

Now try to port the Ruby object system to CL so it will have
reasonable runtime performance.

Good luck.

> Douglas
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