Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

ruby-talk
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>> How about we rewrite the ruby runtime as a combination of macros and
>> functions in Lisp, use ParseTree to get the S-Exp representation of a
>> ruby program and then feed that into our Lisp compiler? Instant
>> speedy ruby! :wink:
>
> (snip Things Man Was Not Meant to Know)
>
> So, it looks like Lisp to me! Now, some macros?
>
> Douglas

What scares (excites?) me is that this looks almost close enough to
work already.

I am both fascinated and horrified. My beautiful Ruby!!!! Scarred by the
Lisp-rape of a thousand parentheses.

I can't watch.

sd