> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Hulme-Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 10:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ruby > > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 05:39:54PM +0000, Leon Brocard wrote: > > Jonathan Peterson sent the following bits through the ether: > > > > > The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me: > > > > It's very Perlish, but over-the-top OO-ish at the same time. The > > interpreter just runs over the parse tree - none of these fancy > > bytecodes and stuff. I'm not convinced, but get the best of both > > worlds with Inline::Ruby ;-) > > IIRC, the author is working on making Ruby compile to > bytecodes as we speak. > I'm not sure when this'll be done though. Best I can find is > a mailing list > post that says that it'll be in the "Next Generation" of > Ruby. That could > mean a while. > Slightly OT, but does anyone think it would be possible to run Perl/Ruby/Java bytecode directly on a Transmeta Crusoe chip? As I understand it, you would only need to implement a VLIW translation layer or whatever (someone stop me if I'm talking complete cr*p). Imagine the scenario, you could write a Perl kernel, a few utils and call it PonyOS :-> Mike