From: "James, Roshan (Cognizant)" <JRoshan@...>
Date: 2004-07-20T18:50:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling Ruby code

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If it is a meaningful additions to this list, I'd like to say that thse
projects exist -

Groovy
http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Jruby
http://jruby.sourceforge.net/

Groovy might be of interst because it is a ruby like language that is
compiled ot the JVM. The understand being that if it can be compiled to
the JVM, it can be compiled to native code. It is a powerful flexible
language like ruby with proper iterator and closure support.=20

However, as far as I understand,  eval style dynamic compilation is not
yet supported.=20

I really agree with your sentiment about wanting to compile ruby
programs for the purpose of redistribution. That's the problem with all
the ruby code out there - there is no way I can redistribute it without
asking people download the ruby interpreter.=20
And they they go "whats that ?... " and the whole story telling process
starts.=20

Taking ruby to a popular VM/runtime or native code, IMHO would be a big
big addition to the acceptibility of the language. I understand that
that it is a mind boggling amount of work to do this, in any acceptible
way.

Regards
Roshan James

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