more progress than you can shake a stick at

drbrain (9:42): my machine just did factorial of 5!

zenspider (9:42): yay!

drbrain (9:43): it takes just under 1 second to pull the ParseTree of demo/factorial.rb all the way out to a result

zenspider (9:44): are you shitting me???
ONE SECOND?

drbrain (9:45): $ time ruby run.rb demo/factorial.rb
Machine Stack: [120]
Call Stack: #<Stack:0x31c6ec @sp=0, @fp=0, @stack=[:stack_empty, 3, 120, :stack_empty, :stack_empty, :stack_empty, :stack_empty, 79, 120, :stack_empty, :stack_empty, :stack_empty, :stack_empty, 22, 120, :stack_empty, :stack_empty, :stack_empty, :stack_empty]>
Returned: 120

real    0m1.053s
user    0m0.810s
sys     0m0.040s

drbrain (9:45): now I need to get it simplified down enough to run through ruby2c