From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T20:10:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Peter Suk wrote:

> I'm not *building* a Ruby VM on top of a Smalltalk VM.  The Smalltalk VM will 
> be allocating Objects and JIT-ing bytecodes natively.  There is almost no 
> Smalltalk in the Smalltalk VMs, and what semantics there are are a very good 
> fit for Ruby anyhow.  All I'm doing is providing enough meta-Ruby to enable 
> the Smalltalk VMs to run Ruby (including a Ruby compiler written in Ruby).
>
> (But this language defined in itself is a weird concept to most programmers, 
> and I'll probably go blue in the face repeating this.)

Makes sense to me.  All in all, this sounds like a really cool project and 
I'm looking forward to trying it.

My Ruby skills are still a bit weak, but I know a lot about various 
low-level architectures.  Koichi's talk last year was very interesting.

-- Matt
Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_