From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-10-16T19:20:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Psyco

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:21:47AM +0900, Travis Whitton wrote:
> There's an interesting article on IBM developerWorks about a new program
> called Psyco, which hooks into the guts of Python's interpreter and does
> a kind of just-in-time compilation substituting bytecode for native machine
> code. Apparently, this allows python to achieve near C like speeds without
> having to rewrite any code, and it sounds like a really cool project.
> Unfortunately, I don't care much for Python, but I do love Ruby. This leads
> me to the question of whether there are any similar programs available for
> Ruby. If not, would such a project be possible?

It's already been talked about in this list, in 
[ruby-talk:25949] and [ruby-talk:52296].
 

If Rite ever becomes real, we should definitely explore Psyco's way.
Of course, it needs an underlying VM, and Ruby's current implementation
walks the AST tree...

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