From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-01-13T19:26:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is interpreted and scripting language?

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote:
> Tim Roberts wrote in post #974545:
>> The most popular Ruby implementations are interpreted,
>> but there is nothing that would prevent it from being compiled.
>
> Surely you can't ultimately compile Ruby? The essence of it is it is
> dynamic so you don't know what the code will be until the point of
> execution?

Well, the JVM proves that it's possible. :-)  You "only" need
sophisticated dependency tracking and need to recompile whenever a bit
of code changes.

Cheers

robert

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