From: George Moschovitis <gmosx@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T20:31:31+09:00
Subject: Re: {Ruby code -> C} convertor

Hi,

thanx for the link! this seems to be a really usefull utility.
I am concearned that it only supports version 1.4.4 though.
is someone working on a convertor that supports ruby1.6 ?

thanks again for the help!
-g.


nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> 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
>