From: Dan Sugalski <dan@...>
Date: 2001-12-31T03:45:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29742] Re: Ruby parsers in Ruby

At 08:18 PM 12/30/2001 +0900, Benoit Cerrina wrote:

>"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote in message
> > The frontend would create an AST which could be fed to the different
> > backends:
> > JRuby - emits Java bytecode
> > PRuby - emits Parrot bytecode
> > RRuby - emits Ruby bytecode for upcomeing Rite VM
>This would be nice, however as far as JRuby is concerned this would be like
>starting from scratch, the code we are writing is all in java and the Java
>bytecode will be emited by a java library.

Hmmm. I suppose we could run the java version of the ruby parser through 
the java bytecode->parrot bytecode translator. Dunno what that'd look like 
for speed, though.


					Dan

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