From: Stefan Matthias Aust Date: 2001-04-18T07:10:09+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:13777] Re: Ruby on a JVM - good or bad idea? On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:47:20 +0900, "Bill Kelly" wrote: >[...] >Sounds like a job for a C-to-Java translator? ;-) Don't think so. The only one I know (from Novocode) creates code which you never want to look at or even maintain. IIRC, it creates its own memory with int arrays to simulate C pointer and other stuff, Java cannot handle. >Seriously, though - anyone think that could be workable? Ruby's VM >running on Java's VM? Brute-force-like? Has ruby an intermediate form like for example byte codes or a precompiled token stream which is then interpretered by something like a Ruby VM? If this is the case, then recreating this RVM in Java might be the fasted way to have ruby code running on a JVM. bye -- Stefan Matthias Aust \/ Truth Until Paradox