From: Eric Christopherson Date: 2013-02-21T08:27:22+09:00 Subject: Re: THE CLASS/OBJECT CHICKEN-AND-EGG PARADOX On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Stu wrote: > Rubinius is a smalltalk based vm > written in c++( iirc) at the bootstrap level and written in pure ruby > beyond that. Minor nitpick: I think you're confusing MagLev, which has a Smalltalk VM base, and Rubinius, which has an LLVM base.