From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T06:07:23+09:00
Subject: Re: A true Ruby compiler (for Linux)

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Jason Roelofs wrote:
> Either way, I like seeing this work. It means that we'll eventually be =
able
> to shut up those 'Ruby is too slow' naysayers.
>=20

A significant part of the slowness comes from the computation model. So,
no, it probably won't, even the resulting bytecodes will have to go
through significant epicycles to preserve the runtime dynamism. It will
help, but won't bring it on par to a language with a more strict
computational model, at least not at first. (There's apparently some
deep voodoo implemented in some of the academic Smalltalk VMs and other
exploratory programming language runtimes that can be applied to narrow
the gap even more.)

David Vallner


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