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by Eric Hodel.
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In Rubinius we’ve been slowly working towards using a VM written in C++ instead of the current C VM we’ve got (called “shotgun”). Most of the mechanics of the VM are already complete, so over the past couple weeks we’ve been wiring up the primitives necessary for our ruby kernel (equivalent to Ruby’s core library) to run.
This primitive work is rather tedious, and until Friday I found it highly unenjoyable. I couldn’t perceive how much closer I was to our goal of actually running ruby code on the new VM.
On Friday I recalled that we can run a compiled ruby file against the VM, which gave me a way to shoot towards my goal. Over the past couple days during our Rubinius Team Meeting we’ve gotten up to loading all of our kernel bootstrap and platform, and now we’re just starting to do work in the core libraries.
Switching my working style drastically improved my enjoyment of a process that I found quite annoying. I wish I’d figured this out a couple weeks ago.
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