RubyX: Compiling Ruby and it's effect on the community
summary
Project compiles Ruby to native ELF binaries and demonstrates a working hello program, a five-times yield example, and running on ARM via qemu-arm with Travis integration. Implementation uses a layered pipeline (parser → Vole → 20-instruction minimal VM → target code), a message-object linked-list calling convention, immutable type objects with mutable references, and an object-only memory model. Performance goal is to remove Ruby’s typical ~10x slowdown; current test suite runs about 20 compiled binaries and simple programs like Fibonacci, but full stdlib support is not yet complete.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 6:07Live demo of RubyX compiler
- 12:12How RubyX compilation works
- 24:50Questions and community impact
- 29:47Future plans for RubyX
- 37:29Conclusion and call to action
