Why Yet Another Ruby VM?

[Rich]

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I was just wondering why it was decided that a new VM should be produced fo=
r
Ruby instead of using an existing that could be targeted? (not a complaint,
honestly a question)

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[Yukihiro Matsumoto]

Hi,

In message "Re: Why Yet Another Ruby VM?"

|I was just wondering why it was decided that a new VM should be produced for
|Ruby instead of using an existing that could be targeted? (not a complaint,
|honestly a question)

Just because it's easier for us to implement all the features in
Ruby, including continuations etc.

matz.