From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-18T09:43:32+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

From: "Dan Sugalski" <dan@sidhe.org>


> >
> >   Ruby could be turned into a compiling language without losing its
> >   dynamicity -- which provides advantages that statically typed
> >   languages can't provide -- but it would take a lot of work to do.
> >   It would take a year and four or five scary smart people to work
> >   with Matz and do nothing else during that time.
> 
> Almost. You could go compiled now, you just won't see the speedups I 
> was talking about (the order of magnitude or two one). There's 
> nothing about Ruby as it stands now that prevents you from generating 
> a standalone executable. (And not just a wrapped interpreter, a real 
> executable) Being compiled or not is orthogonal to the sort of 
> dynamicity that makes the speed gains difficult.


Interesting.  How would the following code be compiled?

  code = gets
  eval code

Gavin