From: Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...>
Date: 2004-03-10T21:27:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling Ruby source to binary via JRuby and gcj - anyone tried  it?

 --- Asfand Yar Qazi <im_not_giving_it_here@i_hate_spam.com> wrote:

> Oh sorry: I misunderstood the purpose of JRuby: I thought it compiled
> 
> Ruby source code to Java Bytecode.  It's just a Java-based
> interpreter.

Yeah, but the difference isn't really that big. Most of the code in
JRuby is about implementing a Ruby runtime (classes, objects, methods
and all that), which would be the same even if we had a compiler.

/Anders



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