With the (hopefully) convincing motivation out of the way, we can get to the technical details. Compiling Interpreter, Interpreting Compiler As mentioned in the motivation, I want to build an ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby. I want it to be compatible with the existing Ruby implementation to fit it naturally into the existing system. So the first question I had to answer is - how do I even do it? Compilers vs. Interpreters The execution model of compiled and interpreted languages is slightly ...

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