From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T05:43:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

> > But I have a question, apologies if it's obvious -- is that a
> > superficial result or a meaningful result? It looks as if the magic
> > missing link here is ParseTree. Can you just drop that output into a
> > Lisp interpreter, badda bing badda boom?
>
> Absolutely not. The sexp generated by ParseTree is ruby specific and
> has nothing to do with lisp.

so they didn't add "puts" to Lisp while I wasn't looking then. well,
that's a bummer.

coming back to a brief moment of sanity, it'd probably be more useful
to write a Ruby VM in Lisp rather than a Lisp interpreter in Ruby
anyway. I mean if we're still talking performance here.

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Giles Bowkett
http://www.gilesgoatboy.org