Re: [MacRuby-devel] Looking for info on MacRuby's JIT

2009-12-10 Thread Vincent Isambart
Sorry for the late reply. > MacRuby's VM is called Roxor. Currently in the code in trunk doesn't use > any interpreter mode; Ruby code is always compiled before is can be run. Yes. There are plans to add a simple interpreter to be faster with simple evals. It would interpret directly the Ruby pa

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Looking for info on MacRuby's JIT

2009-12-08 Thread ravenex
@Ernie, Thank you for the links. Actually I'm have read MRI 1.9's code base before, so I was able to find quite a few "entry points" that I needed to get up to speed with MacRuby. The problem is I'm not familiar with the Objective-C runtime, and that's big blocker for me, since MacRuby is tightly

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Looking for info on MacRuby's JIT

2009-12-07 Thread Vincent Isambart
> Greetings. New to this list, and to MacRuby. I was just skimming over the > source code from trunk, but wasn't able to find a document that describes > the current design of Roxor. I only found requirements, build instructions, > coding styles and the like. There's currently no documentation on

[MacRuby-devel] Looking for info on MacRuby's JIT

2009-12-07 Thread ravenex
Hi all, Greetings. New to this list, and to MacRuby. I was just skimming over the source code from trunk, but wasn't able to find a document that describes the current design of Roxor. I only found requirements, build instructions, coding styles and the like. The thing I find very confus