Hi guys, I would like to be able to contribute to JRuby, but if I want to understand how JRuby works internally, I guess I need to know quite a bit about compilers, parsing, grammars and all that stuff. Now, I learnt about it when I was at university, but it was a long time ago and I have basically forgotten everything.
I was wondering if Charles, Tom, Ola and other experts could share some advice on how to learn everything we need to learn about compilers if we want to fully understand how JRuby works. Could you please recommend a few books, articles, etc? Yes, I know about the Dragon Book and I know there are plenty of books about compilers. But this is the "problem" for me now. I dont know which ones I should start with. I also know that there are other ways to contribute to JRuby which do not necessarily mean that you need to know how JRuby parses Ruby code, but I am still interested in this anyway. Thanks guys in advance. Juan Miguel
