From: mental@...
Date: 2005-11-09T03:04:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Investigating Ruby - key limitations ?

Quoting mortench <mortench@gmail.com>:

> 1. Since early Java VM's also used a simple interpreter I think a
> comparison is perfectly ok despite some reservations in some
> replies.

Not really.  Java's model was always a VM, whether interpreted or
compiled.

Ruby, before YARV, doesn't even have a VM or bytecode.  Its
interpreter just walks the abstract syntax tree directly.

-mental