Ruby can easily be extended with a library which allows inline compilation of C code:
http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/RubyInline/ which if used intelligently can greatly speed up some inner loops. Charles Nutter just added the capability to do the same for Java code in the trunk version of JRuby. This is a feature in that is probably quite useful in a very small set of situations -- what's wild is that it can be done at all. Example: http://pastie.org/161826 Take a look at the benchmark comparisons at the end. -- - Stephen Bannasch Concord Consortium, http://www.concord.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAIL-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SAIL-Dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
