Re: [jruby-dev] Fwd: A bit more IR2JVM work on the flight home

2012-04-26 Thread Subramanya Sastry
Thanks Charlie. I'll try to move more conversations here as well. Besides the interpreter and helping me understand jruby and ruby semantics, Tom has been doing a lot of the work trying to keep the whole setup organized/well-structured and has done a lot of refactoring of my first pass, in some

[jruby-dev] Fwd: A bit more IR2JVM work on the flight home

2012-04-25 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Forwarding a conversation we've been having about IR2JVM work. The JRuby IR (Intermediate Representation) is our effort to build a completely new interpreter + compiler + runtime using a more optimizable structure. It currently can run RubySpecs green in 1.8 and 1.9 modes, which is a big