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So it compiles your code into a bundle with ruby interpreter so that you don't need one during execution? It sounds like what youtube-dl does in Windows by addi
by kronos29296 9y ago
So it compiles your code into a bundle with ruby interpreter so that you don't need one during execution? It sounds like what youtube-dl does in Windows by adding the interpreter to the executable. Useful but not in speeding things up but in packaging without dependencies.
They should probably mention that in the README because it is ambiguous and I thought it was a bytecode or binary compiler for Ruby at first.
- bjpbakker 9y agoIMO there's not mich ambiguity in AOT compilation; it /compiles/ the code ahead of time. This tool is just not that. It /copies/ the code ahead of time. There's not really an advantage in that (maybe distributing a single file, but that's it). Maybe the author should consider describing it as packager or something else.