From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2007-11-12T04:32:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Grokking the C code

Brad Ediger wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Stefan Kanev wrote:
>
>> Last few days I've been spending parts of the evenings digging into
>> Ruby's C code. I'm trying to get a basic idea of how everything works,
>> both to learn and to introduce some tweaks in the language (just for
>> my personal enjoyment). I'm finding that as a big bite, though. Can
>> you guys recommend me how to tackle the whole thing? And is there some
>> basic overview of how the code works (for example, how eval.c works
>> and what are the frame, tag, iter and so on structs) from which I get
>> get the big idea?
>
> Definitely start out with the Ruby Hacking Guide:
>
> http://rhg.rubyforge.org/
>
> Only a few chapters have been translated into English so far, but it 
> should be more than enough to get you started.
>
> -be
>
>

Thanks for the link!! It makes extremely interesting reading :)
...and very distracting too!

Cheers,
Mohit.
11/12/2007 | 3:31 AM.