Compiling Ruby and Python interpreters with Clang?

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Published on 2010-03-06T00:04:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 15:50 UTC
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I'm just curious; are there any benchmarks about how compiling interpreters for dynamic languages with Clang affects the performance of these languages? Do those interpreters even compile?

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