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evanphx on May 14, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rubinius 1.0 (Fabius) Released

Well, not exactly. The interpreter is in C++. By bytecode compiler he means the code that translates from a ruby AST into bytecode, which is in ruby.

daveungerer on May 15, 2010 [–]

Sure, but the point I'm trying to make is that Wayne Seguin was using the word "interpreter" colloquially to refer to the whole program, in effect saying that the whole code base is C++.

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