From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-06T07:54:29+09:00
Subject: Re: What is YARV?

Put shortly, it's a Rubyists (for given values of Rubyist, notably including 
me) biggest dream. If it works out, Ruby scripts will run Damn Fast compared 
to how they do now. They could also be distributable in a compact wordcode 
form, for all the good and bad that brings.

<rant>
i also silently hope for YARV to run / compile in a mode without support for 
string-based eval, the mild deprecation of that horrible, completely 
unoptimizable language feature in the core / stdlib in favour of the 
multitude of much cleaner reflection and metaprogramming present in Ruby, so 
that there's at least a remote hope of such wonders like clean blocks that 
don't prevent their entire scope from being GCed just because the interpreter 
can't tell whether it will be used. Etc.
</rant>

David Vallner

Dňa Sobota 04 Február 2006 22:53 Jim napísal:
> I see it's a VM for Ruby, but what does that mean and what is it good
> for?