I did something similar in Ruby but using GCC as a "JIT" compiler for image processing (software [1], thesis [2]). I can really recommend JIT compilation for do

I did something similar in Ruby but using GCC as a "JIT" compiler for image processing (software [1], thesis [2]). I can really recommend JIT compilation for doing array processing. [1] http://www.wedesoft.de/hornetseye-api/ http://www.wedesoft.de/hornetseye-api/ [2] http://www.wedesoft.de/downloads/thesis_wedekind.pdf http://www.wedesoft.de/downloads/thesis_wedekind.pdf EDIT: In my approach I didn't go through the Ruby AST though. Rather I used the approach of injecting "GCCVariables" which emit C code instead of doing the actual computation.