From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T18:59:14+09:00
Subject: Re: documentation of ruby internals

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:05:58PM +0900, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Deni George wrote:
> 
> >for this I wanted information regarding what is the intermedate 
> >representation produced by the ruby interpreter that we can work on ...
> 
> This totally depends on which version of Ruby you are using. It's an AST 
> system in all rubies up to (and including) 1.8.x, as well as the early 
> years of 1.9; recently it switched to a bytecode system which is/was 
> called YARV. (right?)

1.9/HEAD still uses the good old rb_eval AST walker, as it hasn't been merged
with YARV yet.

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