A little experiment in statically-compiling Ruby…my evening project at the #gogaruco party on Saturday.

An experiment in static compilation of Ruby: FASTRUBY!

A little experiment in statically-compiling Ruby…my evening project at the #gogaruco party on Saturday.

This is about 30% faster than JRuby with invokedynamic. It is not doing any boundschecking (for rolling over to Bignum) but it is also not caching 1...256 Fixnum objects like JRuby does, nor caching them in any calls along the way (note that it creates three new RFixnums for every recursion that JRuby would not recreate). I call that pretty good. Obviously because this is designed to compile the whole system at once, we could also emit optimized versions of methods that look like they're doing math. That is yet to come, if I continue this little experiment at all. There's also some fun possibilities here. By specifying Java types, the compiler could add normal Java methods. Implementing interfaces could be done directly. And Android applications built with this tool would be entirely statically optimizable, only shipping the small amount of code they actually call and havi...

Full article: http://blog.headius.com/2012/09/an-experiment-in-static-c...

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@esdaniel » 08 Oct '12, 9am
One to watch... "This is about 30% faster than #JRuby with invokedynamic." [link]
@ubuntroll » 28 Sep '12, 5pm
RT @codepoet_ch: RT @codepoet_ch: Statically compile Ruby into Java... Sounds like a sin, doesn't it? [link]
@featureenvy » 28 Sep '12, 5pm
Statically compile Ruby into Java... Sounds like a sin, doesn't it? [link]
@brucehsu » 26 Sep '12, 1pm
[link] 將Ruby code直接轉為Java code來編譯，就簡單的範例程式來說比用到invokeDynamic的JRuby 1.7還快30%，不知道會走到什麼程度 :/
@stackful_io » 22 Sep '12, 11pm
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@drnic » 21 Sep '12, 6pm
RT @spastorino: Very interesting experiment: static compilation of Ruby: FASTRUBY [link] by @headius
@kenn » 21 Sep '12, 7am
RubyMotion + FASTRUBY = Ruby-based cross compilers for iOS and Android? [link]
@matthew_mccray » 20 Sep '12, 10pm
Very interesting: [link] But I would hesitate before calling a cross-compiler to Java a ‘static compiler.’
@henry_maddocks » 20 Sep '12, 9pm
Ruby => Java compiler [link]
@alberti_co » 20 Sep '12, 2pm
So many awesome possibilities! » @headius: An experiment in static compilation of #Ruby: FASTRUBY [link] https://t.co/8Nv4Txcg
@ysbaddaden » 18 Sep '12, 6am
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@SamuelKillin » 17 Sep '12, 12pm
a static compiler for ruby - v. cool [link]
@pat_shaughnessy » 17 Sep '12, 12pm
Yes @headius, very neat! "An experiment in static compilation of Ruby: FASTRUBY!" [link]
@RubyReflector » 17 Sep '12, 11am
Top Ruby Article: An experiment in static compilation of Ruby: FASTRUBY!: [link]
@dodgy_coder » 17 Sep '12, 11am
An experiment in static compilation of Ruby: FASTRUBY! [link] by the creator of JRuby, Charles Nutter - @headius
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An experiment in static compilation of Ruby: FASTRUBY!

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