From: Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T06:25:40+09:00
Subject: converting some autogenerated ruby code to C

One of the next things I want to do in my grammar package is to give
it a performance boost by generating C code instead of ruby code.
Right now the parsers I generate are a set of a few methods with giant
expressions in each.  I would like to try improving the performance by
generating and compiling C code instead.  My preference would be to
convert my small subset of ruby code to C code (easily have an option
to use pure ruby or use ruby/C), but I could also autogenerate C code
instead.  Anybody have any opinions/ideas about what approach I whould
take?  I saw a rubyToC package on rubyforge that I could possibly use,
but I can't seem to find any good documentation/examples.  It also
looks like it has some type inference that I don't want (I take
advantage of duck typing quite a bit).  rb2c looks to be another
option.

Opinions?

Eric