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I've stopped commenting about MRI entirely, it just makes people mad, and it's not even fun anymore. It's too easy. Still, I have to give Matz credit for making
by silentbicycle 16y ago
I've stopped commenting about MRI entirely, it just makes people mad, and it's not even fun anymore. It's too easy. Still, I have to give Matz credit for making a language a lot of people sincerely love.
I know it's splitting hairs whether bytecode + a VM counts as compiled or interpreted (it's both, really), but compiling to bytecode rather than a pure interpreter usually makes enough of a difference performance-wise that it's worth giving some credit.
- chc 16y agoIf people would just stop talking about Ruby 1.8, it wold allow for more meaningful discussion. 1.9 is a lot faster and has better support for concurrency.
- silentbicycle 16y agoIndeed, it's too bad that the transition has been taking so long.
- Locke1689 16y agoFYI, compilers are written completely different from interpreters. Bytecode languages are compiled as well.
- silentbicycle 16y agoI know, but often when people make that distinction, it's concerned with what performance ballpark the language has rather than strictly implementation issues.