YARV is Merging #
Just following up on the Denver Accord: Koichi’s promise was good and he is wrapping up his work on the recent PARALLEL branch of YARV and has updated trunk to sync with Ruby’s 1.9 HEAD. This is an enormous job (as Matz said before) Koichi is trying to keep up with a moving target and YARV significantly diverges at eval.c.
In his letter to ruby-core and yarv-dev-en, Koichi sounds very elated that finally YARV is being merged into Ruby. This means Ruby development will be moving to a new svn repository this month and that YARV will no longer be called YARV because it’ll be called by a new and wonderful name: Ruby. And then we spend the next year working on Ruby 1.9.1.
Yes, so, Koichi is in real need of testers on all platforms.
mkdir yarv_TRUNK && cd yarv_TRUNK svn co http://www.atdot.net/svn/yarv/trunk yarv cd yarv autoreconf -ivf cd .. mkdir build && cd build ../yarv/configure --prefix=/opt/yarv make make test make install
Post bugs to yarv-dev-en with the word [BUG] in the subject.
nertzy
Watch out for the case change between yarv_TRUNK and YARV _TRUNK up there in the first line. Macs won’t notice.
evan
This is great news, even though it’s completely expected. Our Christmas present will be in our hands in no time.
Bil Kleb
nertzy: Should have skipped the
&&and usedcd $!on the next line instead?willcodeforfoo
I’ve been running some informal tests with
ruby -rbenchmark -e "puts Benchmark.measure {}"and YARV ’ed Ruby is a bit… slower. What gives? I thought YARV -infused Ruby was going to be my Red Ryder BB gun this Christmas?willcodeforfoo
I should note that I actually am putting code in that block. Like
'a'*1_000_000_000(Interestingly enough, passing it empty like that is faster in YARV .)
topfunky
why’s build script in a single file:
http://topfunky.net/svn/shovel/yarv/build_yarv.sh
MenTaLguY
Apparently YARV ’s
String#*isn’t very fast yet? I dunno…corbanbrook
Excellente.
I constantly scour the internets for new YARV information yet _why always gets the scoops before anyone else.
JFMiller
Now the big question does the (FF) Sandbox work with YARV ?
Matt Todd
I’m going through the course running with my fly Dual 1Ghz G4 and fairly standard setup (I did install Ruby 1.8.4, but that doesn’t count).
Configuring… no problem there.
Compiling right now… all going well… still going… dl.c taking its time… very good… a few trivial warnings (
pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness)... done.Uh oh. Make test basically said “arghhhhhhhh”:
not ok assignment 47 -- ../yarv/sample/test.rb:91:in `<main>'and it says it about 100 times.I just copy-pasted it into the terminal, so it ran make install as well, which responded “nothing to be done” for a number of the entries.
Trying to run Yarv, though, through IRB , seems to work fine. I only tested with little functions and objects, but will give it a good workover tomorrow.
If what I exprienced was truly a bug, and not just dimwittedness on my part, I will submit a bug promptly.
Thanks for the good news, friend!
M.T.
MenTaLguY
JFMiller: no.