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Although with most JVMs being written in C, JRuby is still running on something that was built in C.
by aethr 13y ago
Although with most JVMs being written in C, JRuby is still running on something that was built in C.
- glurgh 13y agoSure but that's true for almost all software. It's turtles/C[++] nearly all the way down, if you pick a particular way of looking at it. Besides, a modern JVM JIT does not emit C.
- pjmlp 13y agoSome of them are actually meta-circular, by being implemented in Java itself. Oracle's Project Graal plans to replace the C++ JIT by a Java one. This is based on the work of the Maxime VM.