From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-04-04T19:27:07+09:00
Subject: Re: {Ruby code -> C} convertor

Hi,

At Thu, 4 Apr 2002 19:11:22 +0900,
George Moschovitis wrote:
> I was wondering, instead of developing a bytecode compiler and/or JIT
> for ruby, would it be feasible to implement a ruby -> C convertor ? As
> I understand there is a 1-1 relation between ruby code and C so i think
> this should be possible. Using such a convertor, one could develop his
> application using ruby and when he is finished with coding/debuging
> could run the code through the converter and get an efficient (and
> obfuscated) binary!

rb2c (for ruby 1.4.4) exists.

  http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=rb2c

-- 
Nobu Nakada