Re: The Compiler Is Complete

> I just finished up compilation on BEGIN and END blocks, which brings
> the compiler to completion. I've also successfully been able to
> compile the entire standard library and run IRB and RubyGems entirely
> off compiled scripts (i.e. I deleted all the .rb files).
>
> OptN doesn't compile and never will; we will just wrap script
> execution with the appropriate logic. I'll monkey with that later;
> nobody uses -n that I know of.
>
> RubyGems seemed to start up quite a bit slower than with the
> interpreter, so I'll do some investigation on that. And there's scads
> of optimizations left to do in the compiler and in the load sequence.
> But any work after this will be bug fixing and optimization.
>
> The Compiler Is Complete.
>
> (and I have first dibs on blogging it)
>
> - Charlie
>
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