Appreciate it. Yeah, you're right - when I started I didn't even plan on doing a Ruby compiler at all, just a compiler in Ruby. But I was also obsessing over the difficulty of compiling Ruby, and so was tempted to see how far it would get.

I'd really like to find time to pick it up again and clean it up and I'm toying with dynamic workflows in Claude now and might just have it set up one to "burn down" rubyspecs, as it did fairly well last autumn at fixing things, including adding bignum and beginnings of Regexp support.

Getting from working to usable and fast, though, would be a lot of work.