Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="zimbatm, post: 4514572"] I think that the main difference is that Ruby is not capable of restoring the parsed source code. When you call ruby on a script it will be transformed in an AST tree. All the source code comments will be lost. Reference to the source code is stored but if you have a Squeak like VM, everything is an eval'ed code. I've played a little bit with Squeak and it looks like every bit of information you write is retained. There is also a lot of work involved in the bytecode on disk storage and restoring which wasn't even approached in the ruby community. Maybe introdocing a bytecode VM like YARV will change that status ? Cheers, zimbatm [/QUOTE]