From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2004-01-31T04:49:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Bignums and return

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:05:03PM +0900, ts wrote:
>  because there is an explicit return, ruby has added a NODE RETURN (which
>  call rb_eval()).
> 
>  When ruby call the method #a it will use more stack (there is one more
>  call) than when it call the method #b

Does Ruby not have even a basic peephole optimizer?
It seems like "def one; return 1 end" and "def one; 1 end;" should
result in identical bytecode.

-Mark