From: Ashley Moran <work@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T06:33:08+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C


On Jul 26, 2006, at 9:11 pm, Chad Perrin wrote:

> It just looks to me like everyone's chasing VMs.  While the nontrivial
> problems with Java's VM are in many cases specific to the Java VM (the
> Smalltalk VMs have tended to be rather better designed, for instance),
> there are still issues inherent in the VM approach as currently
> envisioned, and as such it leaves sort of a bad taste in my mouth.

Chad...

Just out of curiosity (since I don't know much about this subject),  
what do yo think of the approach Microsoft took with the CLR?  From  
what I read it's very similar to the JVM except it compiles directly  
to native code, and makes linking to native libraries easier.  I  
assume this is closer to JVM behaviour than Perl 5 behaviour.  Is  
there anything to be learnt from it for Ruby?

Ashley