From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-14T08:59:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15076] Re: bytecode compilation

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15071] bytecode compilation"
    on 01/05/14, Steven Haryanto <steven@haryan.to> writes:

|I come from a Python (and later, Perl) background and decided
|yesterday that I would learn Ruby in the next two months. As I
|understood so far, Ruby does not do bytecode compilation, am I
|right? Is this coming/planned/whatever? Sometimes I just want my
|source code file hidden/obscured, for fancyness and packaging.
|Is there a way to do this in Ruby.

Ruby's not yet byte-compiled.  Byte-compilation is planned but not in
the near future.  Sourcecode obfuscater is also be planned.  It will
be available sooner, I think.

							matz.