From: Roger Pack Date: 2008-05-12T15:54:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Huge performance gap Bill Kelly wrote: > But yes, it's harder to make a language like Ruby, which is highly > dynamic at runtime, fast like C++ and Java, which are primarily > statically compiled. The Smalltalk folks have reportedly done pretty > well though, so there exists the possiblilty that Ruby may get > substantially faster in the future. YARV is already making some > headway. My question is what does 1.9 exactly do with its "Inline (Method) cache"[1]? Is there room for more improvement with a better JIT compiler? How much would this help scripts? Thanks! -R [1] http://www.atdot.net/yarv/rc2006_sasada_yarv_on_rails.pdf -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.