From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2010-01-31T03:03:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Distressing Doc

YARV = Yet Another Ruby VM -- the standard VM implementation in Ruby 1.9.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:45 PM, lalawawa <usenet@ccjj.info> wrote:
> pharrington wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 26, 11:02 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <mar...@marnen.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> burke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can assure you that ruby is not compiled (nor are python or perl).
>>>
>>> Python can be compiled to bytecode.  Ruby can't
>>
>> Ruby 1.9, running on YARV, compiles into bytecode.
>
> I don't know what YARV is, but I upgraded my ruby from 1.8 to 1.9, and the
> benchmark sped up from 4.9s to 1.4s.
>
>