On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:23, Daniel Spiewak <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/198856/ > > This is a patch to run the JRuby ahead-of-time compiler against the > *entire*Ruby distribution and installed gems prior to zipping for > distribution. The > motivations behind this are two-fold. First, the resulting .class files > are > substantially smaller than the original .rb files and so the size of the > distributable goes down. More importantly though, AOT compilation imparts > a > significant performance advantage, particularly when we can apply some > optimizations. Unfortunately, documentation seems to be limited (read: > non-existant) where it comes to tuning the AOT compiler, so I had to just > guess based on what I know of its architecture. The settings I am using > are > the same ones I've been using with the regular JRuby JIT running Buildr for > more than six months, so I think they're fairly safe (and they do yield > substantial benefits). > > The big problem I'm having is that the compiler always seems to return an > error. It does compile everything (except for our buildr/java/bdd.rb and > one of Hoe's files, which cause internal exceptions), and it doesn't print > any errors, but regardless of what I do, the result always seems to be an > error code of 1. Headius, if you're listening in lurk mode, we could use > some help here. :-) > > Hopefully this change will help streamline our all-in-one distribution and > maybe make it a compelling option even for those who are comfortable with > `gem install`. > > Daniel >
