From: jstern@... (Josh Stern)
Date: 2001-01-18T18:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9500] Re: 101 Misconceptions About Dynamic Languages

In article <ur921berb.fsf@ctwd0143.fitlinxx.com>,
David Bolen  <db3l@fitlinxx.com> wrote:
>"W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@mindspring.com> writes:
>
>> My personal take on deployment issues is consumer end-users.  These
>> people want an easy install, which any application not distributed
>> in compiled form does not deliver.
>
>Well, that's not necessarily true.  The installation has to appear to
>be a self-contained "compiled" program, but that doesn't mean the
>application itself really has to be.  Although perhaps it's just
>playing games with what "compiled" means.

The proposal I made a few posts back for calling the embedded
interpreter on compressed code was intended to generate a
single native binary executable that would appear to the user as
any other native binary.  It would also run slightly faster
than the ordinary mode in which the interpreter is reading
in the code from files.

-= Josh