From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-27T05:12:29+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:

> In regard to YARV: I get a creepy feeling about anything that is
> considered by most of the world to be the prospective answer to all
> their problems. And as a former language designer, I have some reasons
> to believe that a VM will not be Ruby's performance panacea.

one of the reasons i've been pushing so hard for an msys based ruby is that
having a 'compilable' ruby on all platforms might open up developement on jit
type things like ruby inline - which is pretty dang neat.

2 cts.

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