Compiling Ruby and Python interpreters with Clang?

Question

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?

Answer 1

http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2009/08/compiling-python-using-clang.html

I'd love to see this done in windows.

Answer 2

Ruby 1.9.2-rc2 successfully compiled

http://joneslee85.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/howto-compile-ruby-1-9-2-head-with-clang-svn-head-on-mac-os-x-10-6-3/

Answer 3

Here's a blog entry Compiling Python using Clang. Sounds like little or no improvement in speed. Better diagnostics and faster compile though.