On Feb 4, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Garance A Drosehn wrote:

> That said, I did see some other reference to ruby2c.  I think that
> might make ruby more attractive to use in the "base system" of some
> operating system.  But I'm wondering if it really turns the script
> into plain C -- with no dependencies on a ruby interpretter.  Or if
> it is like some other "scripting-language to executable" things
> which I have seen, which merely combine the entire interpretter,
> support libraries, and the source-script into one extremely large
> and ungainly mess which happens to be a single executable program.

It turns a method (or bunch of methods) into "plain" C, for some 
definition of plain. Currently it doesn't generate any C code that is 
dependent on the interpreter, but that may change (or branch to do 
both) in the future.

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