From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T11:48:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Ruby with other languages

Seems like there should be something in the FAQ about this.

Gavin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tapio Kelloniemi" <spam07@thack.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 4:38 AM
Subject: Using Ruby with other languages


> Hi all
> I'm new to Ruby, but before seriously studying the language I would like
> to get some information.
> 
> I would like to know, whether it is possible to compile Ruby code to
> executables so I could run Ruby code without the interpreter. I also
> would like to do this, when I noticed that a simple Ruby program runs
> more than 100 times slower than identically implemented C program. I
> also would like to know, wheter it is possible to compile RUby code to
> object format and then link with code written in different languages,
> EG. C++ and C.
> 
> Thanks for all answers!
> 
> --
> Tapio