From: Ioannis Nousias <s0238762@...>
Date: 2009-06-04T18:11:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23700] Standard Ruby bytecode

I came across this post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/884186/can-ruby-php-or-perl-create-a-pre-compiled-file-for-the-code-like-python/949163#949163

a question that I was interested for an answer as well. According to 
J�rg W Mittag, there is no standardised bytecode at the moment, with 
every VM implementation having its own, with a possibility of adopting 
YARV's bytecode as a standard in the future.

my question to the ruby developer community is: has anyone considered 
using LLVM's [1] bytecode for this purpose. I don't know how applicable 
it is, but I would expect certain advantages using a well establish 
format, instead of yet-another-custom-bytecode, with the potential of 
taping into LLVM's resources.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on this one. Feasibility, technical 
considerations, etc. I apologise beforehand if this has been asked before.

regards,
Ioannis

[1] http://llvm.org/



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