From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2002-10-04T07:42:27+09:00
Subject: Re: CRuby (Was: R)

> 1) Curiosity: To see how it would be done.
Curisoity is always a very good reason;
> 2) Study: A C-project I am working on has me more and more convinced that
> what I really want is a high-level C-generator. This was the first
> experiment.
I was once experimenting with mapping C-code to FPGAs, but
6 years ago FPGA had a very limited number of gates (wire was the real 
problem). I got really frustated as my nice code didn't fit at once as it
was not always so easy to work out the exact size and wiring before, so
I started writing a C-code generator to do a sort of binary-search of
the largest-possible size. That was brute-force.

Whare are you working on.
> 3) Speed: I have / had no concrete goals, and no benchmarks as of yet, but
> I would expect to land somewhere between Ruby and proper C.
Makes sense and is a nice way of shipping Ruby applications.

Have fun,
-A.