GobiesVM

A Ruby VM written in Go aims to exploit parallelism via Software Transactional Memory.

Build

git clone https://github.com/brucehsu/GobiesVM.git
cd GobiesVM
make goenv
source goenv
make

The executable will be placed inside bin/.

Usage

gobiesvm [OPTIONS] RBFILE

Options:
  -ast: Print abstract syntax tree structure
  -bench=[0]: Benchmark script execution speed (without parsing stage)
  -bytecode: Print comprehensive bytecode instructions
  -log: Log transaction status

What is supported

• Object manipulations (creation, method calling)
• Variable assignment
• Integer
• Float
• String (single-quoted)
• Basic string operations
• Blocks
• Iterators
• Arrays
• Hashes
• Threads
• Basic IO

What is NOT supported (yet)

• Conditional statements
• Class/method definition
• Native extension interface
• Rubygems

Related Paper

Software Transactional Memory in a Dynamic Programming Language at Virtual Machine Level