Yay! I will have to look into this. We have an interest in compiling Ruby C extensions to Java and providing a JVM-level implementation of Ruby's C API.
- Charlie (mobile) On Feb 1, 2016 1:09 PM, "Alexander Bertram" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've finally gotten around to writing a bit about GCC-Bridge, the > C/Fortran compiler used by Renjin to compile R packages with "native" code > to the JVM. > http://www.renjin.org/blog/2016-01-31-introducing-gcc-bridge.html > > The compiler's recently benefited from a near total rewrite to target Java > 1.7 (including using MethodHandles for function pointers, which are a great > fit) and > we are looking to support C++ code in the near future, which is a actually > not such a big step as we are using GCC as a frontend. > > We've been careful to keep gcc-bridge usable apart from Renjin, so would > welcome collaboration with other J* languages interested in a better > supporting native > extensions/gems/modules! > > All the best, > Alex > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "JVM Languages" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
