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JRuby is not a JIT for Ruby, and it doesn't compile Ruby to Java bytecode. It's a Ruby interpreter, written in Java.
by jim-greer 18y ago
JRuby is not a JIT for Ruby, and it doesn't compile Ruby to Java bytecode. It's a Ruby interpreter, written in Java.
- cschneid 18y agoRecent work in JRuby does exactly that. It'll JIT your code, and you an even pre-compile if you want. (AFAIK, just seen references to all this).
- jim-greer 18y agoCool! Looks like it's been around for over a year: http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/JRuby_Compiler http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/JRuby_Compiler