From: llothar@... (Lothar Scholz)
Date: 2002-08-08T08:45:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling Ruby to Native Code?

Tord Kallqvist Romstad <romstad@math.uio.no> wrote in message news:<gqkofcfq7u1.fsf@priapos.uio.no>...
> web2ed@yahoo.com (Edward Wilson) writes:
> 
> > What prevents Ruby from acheiving native compilation, dynamic
> > typing? 
> 
> Not at all.  There has been excellent, optimizing Common Lisp
> compilers (generating code comparable to, and occasionally faster
> than, the code generated by C compilers) for at least a decade.  I am
> sure a native-code Ruby compiler would be technically possible.

I also must repeat myself here. There are only two ways to get good
lisp speed
using (the) to introduce static typing or reduce the security level of
the compiler so that you must provide always the correct type.

Never written a compiler - right ?