From: Steven Haryanto Date: 2001-05-15T22:33:59+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:15161] Re: bytecode compilation Java is probably easier because of its static typing. Regards, Steve On 5/15/2001 06:40 PM, Renald Buter wrote: >Probably a silly question, but how about 2native, JIT, etc. Would this also >be uncommonly hard to achieve? > >As I have always understood, converting to C is used as an intermediate >step towards native code, with while keeping a some kind of a pseudo >platform-independency --- or am I wrong here?