From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2003-02-20T12:18:05+09:00
Subject: Re: bRuby

Would this allow shipping a compiled ruby application, not so much
for source obfuscation, but to ship an app as a single file rather than
a large collection of ruby source?

Sam

Quoteing gemerson@evalsoft.com, on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:13:01AM +0900:
> I have been looking at bRuby with some interest but haven't had a machine
> available to try the patch to Ruby on.  Is anybody using this?  It looks
> a lot like the preparsed .pyc stuff that Python has; taking a snapshot of
> the syntax tree and writing it to a .brb file, so you can load it again
> later.  Just wondering if a .brb gives one a faster startup than a .rb; it
> could be very cool for web apps.
> 
> You can find it at:
>   http://bruby.sourceforge.jp/archive.en.html
> 
> --
> Gabriel Emerson
> 
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