From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-28T17:02:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26750] Re: Vote in the current poll!

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Phil Tomson wrote:

> >IMHO, you can get a considerable speed-up. AOS/SmallScript is a case in
> >point (but I'm in the beta program and not allowed to give any
> >figures). Its not easy but it can be done.
> 
> I was under the impression that SmallScript is bytecode compiled - it gets 
> compiled to bytecode and then a VM runs the bytecode - which I think is 
> really considered to be in the realm of interpreted as opposed to 
> compiled (it is kind of a gray area), but maybe I'm wrong.  When you say 
> 'compiled' it makes my think that you mean 'compiled to native machine code'.
> 
I think it is JIT-compiled to native machine code.

/Robert