From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2010-10-01T21:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: how can we make a ruby compiler

On 1 Oct 2010, at 05:40, Robin wrote:
> how can we make a thing that compiles ruby into c++ source code?
> does anyone want to help me make one....

It's possible in principle, but in practice you'd end up building a ruby interpreter as part of that and the performance speed up would be marginal without adopting a radically different design to that which is currently well understood.

And C++ might not be the most appropriate target language...

Ellie

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