From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-12-18T22:19:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ByteCodeRuby 0.1.3

> What is it?
> -----------
> A bytecode interpreter for Ruby. Standard Ruby produces a parse tree
> from your source code and then interprets the parse tree directly.
> ByteCodeRuby inserts some additional steps: it takes Ruby's parse tree
> and compiles it to bytecode, ie the instruction set for a virtual
> machine. It then interprets the bytecode. The hope is that this
> approach will eventually lead to improved performance for the Ruby
> interpreter.

you say a virtual machine. what virtual machine does it use?