We have a branch of Rubinius that is compiling ruby to rubinius bytecodes and then transforming that into LLVM bitcode for native compilation. It is still in th

We have a branch of Rubinius that is compiling ruby to rubinius bytecodes and then transforming that into LLVM bitcode for native compilation. It is still in the early stages but it already giving big speed improvements. http://github.com/evanphx/rubinius/commits/cpp http://github.com/evanphx/rubinius/commits/cpp