From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-02-27T17:25:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Compile-time optimization

What is Rite?
Where can I learn about it?


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:21:00PM +0900, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:24:42AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > I realize that the fact that Ruby is a more dynamic language makes 
> > optimization more difficult, but I really think that we should look into 
> > it.
> 
> Assuming constant folding can be done, what would be the impact on
> typical programs? And what would come after?
> 
> I'm not sure it's worth working _hard_ on optimizing the current
> implementation: it's been out for years now and if it was not optimized
> it's because it's not easy. It might be better to focus our limited
> resources on Rite. That could be much faster, doing method inlining,
> specialization, etc...
> 
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