From: "Hal E. Fulton" Date: 2002-08-09T07:19:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Rite vs Parrot: rationale? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mauricio Fern�ndez" To: "ruby-talk ML" Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:48 PM Subject: Rite vs Parrot: rationale? > I'm been looking for the rationale of implementing Ruby's own bytecode > engine (Rite) instead of using Parrot. I can only address part of this. Rite is not just a bytecode engine. Rite, as I understand it, is simply Ruby 2.0 -- a significant rewrite rather than our usual incremental change. The addition of bytecode compilation is only one aspect of Rite. As for Parrot, Dan Sugalski is certainly a Ruby fan and is making sure that Parrot plays well with Ruby. As for the VM built into Rite, I don't know whether it has even been specified at all. In my uninformed opinion, conceivably it could generate Parrot code by default. Hal