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Chicken Scheme compiles ahead of time, doesn't it?



Yeah but it's not an important distinction.


Isn't it? Compiling C takes time, with Ruby you would be doing it for each execution. Is there some catching involved?


Almost everything is in a pre-compiled header. Its actually similar overhead to an LLVM based JIT.

You wouldn’t want to do it for a browser JIT but for a server side app it’s OK.


Does Ruby ship with a compiler? How will this work on Windows?


Nim does too.




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