From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T13:08:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby language: compiled or jited?

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:41:52 -0500, Soh Dubom wrote:

> Is it true that ruby language will change to a compiled or jited
> language, like .net or java?

Ruby 1.9 introduced a bytecode-based interpreter (which converts your 
program to its own bytecodes and then interprets those bytecodes a la 
very old Java VMs). JRuby already has an interpreter which compiles to 
the Java VM, and these days that is JITted, so I guess it's already 
changed.

--Ken

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/