From: brucedickey Date: 2001-04-22T02:59:41+09:00 Subject: [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:cmessengeratinamedotcom@spamfooler.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 11:10 AM > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp > 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 > >