From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-07-21T09:22:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Objective C backend for Ruby?

In article <a05111b13b95f91899af1@[63.120.19.221]>,
Dan Sugalski  <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
>At 6:04 PM -0400 7/20/02, Brad Cox wrote:
>>At 5:45 AM +0900 7/21/02, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>>I was looking at the translator aspect, translating Ruby to 
>>>Objective-C. That was the part that was the real non-starter, 
>>>courtesy of continuations. (I've got a paper or two kicking around 
>>>about some of the interesting things that the Scheme folks had to 
>>>do to get continuations going with what's essentially a C 
>>>environment. It's... interesting)
>>
>>If I might throw out a suggestion, if its not broke, don't fix it. 
>>Ruby's written in C so its ALREADY written in Objective-C. Leave 
>>that alone.
>
>I'd agree. If folks want to toss the interpreter, you might as well 
>go all out and generate machine code directly. It turns out not to be 
>nearly as tricky to do semi-portably as most people think. (Well, at 
>least as much as I thought)
>

OR, target Parrot which we certainly hope will offer some speed ehancement 
over the current Ruby implementation...

Phil