From: SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>
Date: 2005-02-19T04:17:34+09:00
Subject: [ANN] YARV: Yet Another RubyVM 0.1.1

Hi,

I'm happy to announce that I released YARV: Yet Another RubyVM 0.1.1.

Project Home page: http://www.atdot.net/yarv/
YARV 0.1.1       : http://www.atdot.net/yarv/yarv-0.1.1.tar.gz
0.1.1 souces     : http://www.atdot.net/viewcvs.cgi/yarv/tags/0.1.1/

Changes (between 0.1.0):

* some bug fixes
* refoctoring

* New Features
  * support goto (*1)
  * adding Ruby option "-rite" to work ruby script on YARV
    instead of current ruby interpreter (*2)
  * defined? support
  * permit block parameter as local variables or so

* Optimization
  * Instructions unification (aka super instruction) is supported
    tentatively.
  * JIT Compiler (Ruby script -> Native machine code), very experimental
    implementation
  * AOT Compiler support method dispatch

If you want to know moreover, please subscribe yarv-devel
(you can know about this ML in YARV Home page).


This project is supported by IPA (Information-technology
Promotion Agency, Japan) "Exploratory Software Project (youth)".


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// SASADA Koichi at atdot dot net
//

(*1) it's only joke
(*2) using -r (require) option with ite.rb :)