[MacRuby-devel] macruby, llvm, and iphone

[Matt Aimonetti]

Just wait for the official announcement that Laurent mentioned. I'm  
sure he will explain everything in details. Not using YARV means that  
the new VM built on top of core foundation, can use various tips to  
improve the perfs.

-Matt

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 18, 2009, at 14:44, Joel Reymont <joelr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:30 PM, S. Woodside wrote:
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>> I would kill to be able to write my iphone apps in Ruby. Could LLVM  
>> or something like it be used to do that? (like, write an app in  
>> ruby, compile to llvm bytecode, and package the app with the llvm  
>> virtual machine?) (given that apple does not ship a ruby runtime on  
>> iphone, and says "no interpreted languages" is their policy)
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> Technically, the answer should be yes. I think you can run any chunk  
> of binary code linked against static libraries. Code signing can be  
> taken care of by the codesign command-line tool and you can drag  
> properly signed apps into iTunes for installation onto the iPhone.
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> Tethered (on the iPhone) debugging would not be possible without  
> reverse-engineering the usbmuxd protocol, unless you manage to use  
> gdb to debug Ruby code.
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