From: Andy Lester <andy@...>
Date: 2007-02-02T00:26:36+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, use Lua


On Feb 1, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Paul Brannan wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:50:06AM +0900, Andy Lester wrote:
>> Ruby IS compiled, just like Perl.  It's just done very quickly.
>
> Ruby traverses an AST to evaluate your code.  It is not compiled to
> machine code.

I understand that.  Close enough for 99% of purposes.

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