From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-23T06:08:40+09:00
Subject: YARV + win32 (Was: Zed and Luis ...)

On May 22, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:

> A couple weeks ago I asked whether YARV could compile most Ruby  
> programs
> on Win32 (since I could not figure out a satisfactory answer from web
> pages to which I was referred).  I am still hoping that someone can
> apprise me as to the viability of doing this at present.  Are
> stand-alone Windows executables possible?  Is Ruby 1.9 required or  
> does
> 1.84 work?  Can most .rbw programs be compiled?  What kind of
> performance gain is typical?

I grabbed a copy of yarv and tried it out on my powerbook.  It was  
dead-simple to do.  You should try this yourself, I bet it'll take  
you all of an hour including time for a coffee break.

PS: Don't hijack threads, or, Don't trim context.  Both are  
considered Very Bad Form.

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