From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T19:04:30+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005?

Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:

> Hello Christian,
>
> CN> It's getting time the Ruby "compiler"/runtime-environment is rewritten
> CN> in Ruby. :^)
>
> Let us wait 20 years with this until we have the ultra fast quantum
> computer. But then maybe an imperative language like ruby is also not
> used anymore.
>
> I'm really scared about seeing the performance of a ruby parser written
> in ruby.

If they can do it in Smalltalk and Lisp, it's possible in Ruby too.

Bootstrapping will be a boring and tiresome process, of course.  But
once the JIT it running, it hardly doesn't matter.

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