From: Armin Rigo <arigo@...>
Date: 2002-10-18T22:09:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: Psyco

Hello Jostein,

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> Do you know if there is any work on anything like Psyco for Ruby?

No, there is nothing similar I know about for Ruby.  The same techniques
however could straightforwardly be used for any trivially strongly typed
language (which is what languages where type information is attached to
values instead of variables generally are).

I do not plan to port Psyco outside Python myself, but I plan to rewrite
its implementation in a much cleaner way which should make it easier to
understand.  A good target would be to port Psyco to the Parrot VM; this
could accelerate all Parrot-targeted languages with minimal effort.  I
must admit however that I'm a bit afraid about the Parrot VM because its
bytecode instruction set is incredibly complex.


Armin Rigo