Re: [MacRuby-devel] a modest request

2009-04-05 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
Hi Rich, Technically there is no reason why the experimental branch wouldn't work on PPC. The VM itself should work I think in big endian byte order and LLVM is supposed to support PPC (ppc & ppc64) too. However, since I do not have the time to verify and test I prefer to claim that PPC i

Re: [MacRuby-devel] a modest request

2009-04-05 Thread Rich Morin
At 08:51 -0600 4/5/09, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > MacPerl? Hey, what happened to macruby? ... Yeah^3. What's really embarrassing is that I've made that braino before on this list. Sigh. Eloy is certainly correct about OSS letting folks add features for themselves. However, this particular situat

Re: [MacRuby-devel] a modest request

2009-04-05 Thread Eloy Duran
Yeah after some extensive benchmarking it seemed the performance of (Mac)Ruby was never gonna be enough compared to perl. An example of some code that 99% of the apps exist of: % time ./miniruby -e "print 'hello world'" hello world./miniruby -e "print 'hello world'" 0,05s user 0,08s system 8

Re: [MacRuby-devel] a modest request

2009-04-05 Thread Matt Aimonetti
MacPerl? Hey, what happened to macruby? I go on vacation and MacRuby becomes macperl ;) -Matt Sent from my iPhone On Apr 5, 2009, at 0:23, Rich Morin wrote: I realize that Laurent and company have their hands full with simply trying to make JIT (etc) work on Intel hardware. So, I don't ex