On Dec 5, 2007 10:40 AM, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality
<ihatespam / hotmail.com> wrote:
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> "Gerardo Santana Góíez Garrido" <gerardo.santana / gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:b06e22130712050805x568029eeh3d8d39a60ab75490 / mail.gmail.com...
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> > On Dec 5, 2007 7:46 AM, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality
> > <ihatespam / hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> "Nobuyoshi Nakada" <nobu / ruby-lang.org> wrote in message
> >> news:20071205061035.DD12DE0697 / mail.bc9.jp...
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > At Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:25:07 +0900,
> >> > Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote in
> >> > [ruby-talk:282132]:
> >> >> "Nobuyoshi Nakada" <nobu / ruby-lang.org> wrote in message
> >> >> news:20071205020914.E6311E0666 / mail.bc9.jp...
> >> >> > Hi,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > At Wed, 5 Dec 2007 08:40:11 +0900,
> >> >> > Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote in
> >> >> > [ruby-talk:282100]:
> >> >> >>     Why is there any "converting" to do?  How can this not work?
> >> >> >>     My best guess is that the Range class is not written in Ruby
> >> >> >> and,
> >> >> >> hence,
> >> >> >> has funny limitation on how it may work.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Yes, and performance issue.
> >> >>
> >> >>     Just so I'm clear on this; the Range class is implemented in C for
> >> >> performance reasons?
> >> >
> >> > It isn't the only reason why Range is implemented in C, I wrote
> >> > about your "limitation."
> >>
> >>     Where did you write about this?  I'd be happy to read it...
> >>
> >>
> >> > If Range were written in Ruby, it couldn't be used until
> >> > something was loaded.  It wasn't acceptable for intrinsic
> >> > classes.
> >>
> >>     Okay, this makes more sense to me.  So, some built-in classes use
> >> Range
> >> and they couldn't if it were written in Ruby.
> >>     This brings up several issues.  One would be, why not?  Wouldn't it
> >> be
> >> nice if the Ruby interpreter's built in classes could be written in Ruby?
> >
> > That's what Rubinius is.
> >
> > http://rubini.us/
>
>     Rubinius is a virtual machine implementation.  I'm not sure how this
> relates...

From the web page I linked to:

"Rubinius implements the core libraries in Ruby, providing a system
that is much more accessible, easier to develop and to extend."

-- 
Gerardo Santana