From: george.marrows@... (George Marrows)
Date: 2003-11-17T20:07:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [Rite] Byte-Code Compiler in Ruby

> Is this "old" idea realistic for Rite? 

I would say yes. ByteCodeRuby's compiler is implemented in Ruby, which
greatly simplifies things. I haven't looked at the speed of
compilation, which will of course be slower than a C-based version,
but I agree with you that this isn't likely to critically affect
overal performance.

Quick plug: ByteCodeRuby is a (as yet incomplete) bytecode compiler
and interpreter for Ruby. For simplicity it reuses a lot of the
current VM, sharing its parser, class model, standard library and GC.
Version 0.2.0 has just been released on rubyforge:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/bytecoderuby/

-- George