[ruby-talk:13994] RE: Stripped-down Ruby?

You might also consider Simkin at http://www.simkin.co.uk/.

Quoted from the site:
   Simkin is a free Open-Source product which is supplied
   without support. 
   
   Available for Java(tm) or C++ and XML 
   
   Easy to embed - by overriding base classes or 
   implementing interfaces 

   Easy to script - the syntax is simpler than Javascript! 

   Low runtime overhead - you control the memory, no garbage
   collection 

   Low memory footprint - Simkin for Java is a 50k Jar file, 
   Simkin for C++ is a 200k lib file for Visual C++ 

   Flexible script files - they can contain data as well as code 

   Source code provided - customization and support available 

I've only run the examples so far -- it looks solid. 

--Bruce



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Messenger [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 11:10 AM
> To: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject: [ruby-talk:13990] Stripped-down Ruby?
> 
> 
> I need to embed a scripting language in an app I'm creating 
> (a gaming app).
> The only inputs to the language will come from my app, and 
> the only output
> will go to my app.  That is, there will be no OS interaction. 
>  My app is the
> OS.
> 
> I want to use an already-developed scripting language.  
> Besides the benefit
> of saving on writing my own interpreter, the biggest benefit 
> is that I want
> users of my app to be able to reference a mature body of 
> documentation about
> the scripting language itself, apart from the hooks into my system.
> 
> So, Ruby looks like a promising candidate.  The main problem 
> with Ruby is
> that I need to strip out all the OS hooks.  This is partly a 
> security issue,
> and partly a code size issue.  Mainly the former.
> 
> Has any work been done in this direction?  That is, a Ruby 
> with absolutely
> no OS hooks?  Ideally, even memory allocation would come from 
> my app, rather
> than malloc.
> 
> 
>     - Chuck
> 
>