Re: Compile Ruby Code?

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kris Leech defenestrated me:

> Great work with JRuby and the opening up of platform coverage. I was 
> looking at JRuby as a means of protecting Intellectual Property ie. 
> distributing compiled or byte code instead of source code. But it 
> appears that JRuby is an interpretor only, at the moment anyway.
> 
> Are there any plans to create a ruby bytecode pre-compiler?

  Yes, but not in the immediate future.  Charles Nutter has been in
the progress of converting the evaluation part of JRuby to be iterative
instead of recursive.  An iterative evaluation model should be fairly
straight-forward to translate into instructions.  So once that is done
we will look at compilation.

-Tom

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