From: Kazuhiro HIWADA <hiwada@...>
Date: 2000-02-25T02:55:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01567] Ruby: ANN: rb2c-0.6.1, a Ruby-to-C translator

Hi,

I released rb2c-0.6.1, a Ruby-to-C translator.  It's confirmed on
i686-Linux, and will work on Windows with cygwin/mswin C compiler.

http://easter.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hiwada/ruby/rb2c
http://easter.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hiwada/ruby/rb2c/arc/rb2c-0.6.1.tgz

rb2c-0.6.1 is working beta for rb2c-1.4, based on ruby-1.4.  Any
comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.

Technically, it's an abstract interpreter of Ruby's syntax-tree.  It
scans the syntax-tree, and produce the C code, that is expanded eval
loop.  Say, you can get application specific ruby-interpreter.
Eventually:

  * You can get scripts run a little bit faster. 
  * Compile and link produced code, and you'll get only one executable.

OTOH,

  * It's less reliable than the ruby interpreter.

Enjoy it.

Thanks,
hiwada

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Kazuhiro HIWADA <hiwada@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
excuse my buggy English