From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2004-08-12T14:42:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Mono

Alexander Kellett wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:54:53AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
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>>1. A Ruby interpreter ported to Mono?
>>2. A native (x86/whatever) interpreter that spits out CIL bytecodes?
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>>3. A combo of these? An interpreter ported to Mono that outputs Mono?
>>4. A library that simply allows calling the CLR and such?
>>5. Or something else entirely?
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>i've got a small c extension to bind to system.reflection.emit 
>thusly allowing generation and execution of cil bytecode / dlls.
>if anyones interested just mail me. got the basics of a trivial 
>ruth/ast based interpreter working also, got so far as to make
>it successfully execute stuff like "a = 5; a += 8; puts a" :P
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>but... mono ain't all that interesting to me other than
>for interoperability so i've since switched to the parrot
>backend route... and then gave up on that as it was so buggy
>several months ago when i tested it, and now i've restarted
>the effort using a pure native code generator : libjit.
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The libjit path is interesting; I think that is a very promising one. 
Have you managed to wrap libjit as a Ruby extension? I started on that 
but got stuck on the C++ requirement of libjit which made it painful so 
I got sidetracked.

Regards,

Robert