From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-10-22T13:29:45+09:00
Subject: Re: A Real World example for Ruby to "compiled" version discussion

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Phillip Gawlowski
<cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> This sounds like something JRuby would be good at it, since it can JIT
> the loops, and the Java VM reaches nearly-native speeds these days.
>
> So, yes, improved technology could make this faster these days.

Re JRuby: Eventually, yes...the current compiler is largely unchanged
from JRuby 1.1, however, and so we're not taking as good advantage of
the JVM as you might hope. Lots of opportunity to improve it, and
obviously we'd like these loops to be as fast as Java loops if
possible...

Soonish, perhaps! Help us fix bugs so I can spend more time on perf :)

- Charlie