Re: Gforth and gcc "progress"

Anton Ertl wrote:
Would it be considered important enough if it gave a nice speedup for
Python or Ruby?

IIRC, there was or is a project to use vmgen for Ruby (carbone), but
apparently that project isn't followed. There's also YARV, which is a
similar stack-based approach, but doesn't use vmgen directly.

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Bernd Paysan
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