From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-07T19:13:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20404] Re: Leave my open classes alone (was  Behavior: autoload calls rb_require()  directly)

Brent Roman wrote:
> Charlie,
> 
> I skimmed the article.  John's obviously a smart guy.  I hope
> he gets a chance implement his headless objects.
> 
> Sun's JVM has grown into a truly impressive piece of work and
> I do believe it well continue to get better.  However,
> it's also grown quite large and remains tied to the Intel x86
> and SPARC CPUs.
> 
> Is there anyone running a recent version of 
> JRuby on an ARM or MIPS CPU with an open source JVM?
> 
> If I could find a way to run JRUBY on my targets, I'd be all
> over it.

I'm not sure, actually. There's a lot of people using JRuby on peculiar 
setups that we don't even know about. I know there's also work being 
done to get OpenJDK hosted on ARM and other platforms, but I'm not sure 
what the status is other than this posting:

http://gbenson.net/?p=88

Gary Benson is working on the Zero and Shark projects, which aim to 
provide Hotspot (OpenJDK's VM) with zero assembly and with an LLVM 
backend, respectively. Might be worth giving it a try, and at any rate 
it won't be long before Hotspot runs everywhere.

- Charlie