On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 05:39:54PM +0000, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Jonathan Peterson sent the following bits through the ether:
> 
> > The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me:
> 
> It's very Perlish, but over-the-top OO-ish at the same time. The
> interpreter just runs over the parse tree - none of these fancy
> bytecodes and stuff. I'm not convinced, but get the best of both
> worlds with Inline::Ruby ;-)

IIRC, the author is working on making Ruby compile to bytecodes as we speak.
I'm not sure when this'll be done though.  Best I can find is a mailing list
post that says that it'll be in the "Next Generation" of Ruby.  That could
mean a while.

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Mark Hulme-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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