From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-02-13T13:12:07+09:00
Subject: Re: couple quick questions about YARV

Hi,

In message "Re: couple quick questions about YARV"
    on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:28:32 +0900, Joshua Haberman <joshua@reverberate.org> writes:

|1. any idea what the up-front cost for starting up YARV will be?  I'm  
|just hoping we won't see 1 second of disk churn that we've come to  
|expect from the JVM.

% ruby1.8 -ve 0
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux]
-e:1: warning: useless use of a literal in void context

real    0m0.009s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.001s

% ruby.yarv -ve 0
ruby 1.9.0 (2006-02-09) [i686-linux]
YARVCore 0.3.3 (rev: 389) [opts: ]
warning: useless use of a literal in void context

real    0m0.006s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.001s


|2. will existing Ruby extensions continue to work?

Currently, yes.  No promise for the future.


							matz.