Compiling into Obj-C is a natural solution for an OOP interpreter.  The 
overhead is a very small runtime, but the dynamism is preserved.

On Sunday 13 May 2001 18:59, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "[ruby-talk:15071] bytecode compilation"
>
>     on 01/05/14, Steven Haryanto <steven / haryan.to> writes:
> |I come from a Python (and later, Perl) background and decided
> |yesterday that I would learn Ruby in the next two months. As I
> |understood so far, Ruby does not do bytecode compilation, am I
> |right? Is this coming/planned/whatever? Sometimes I just want my
> |source code file hidden/obscured, for fancyness and packaging.
> |Is there a way to do this in Ruby.
>
> Ruby's not yet byte-compiled.  Byte-compilation is planned but not in
> the near future.  Sourcecode obfuscater is also be planned.  It will
> be available sooner, I think.
>
> 							matz.