Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust

Re:Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust by judofyr on Sunday August 04, 2019 @08:22AM (#20606053)

I love seeing more Ruby implementations! Looking forward to seeing how it will progress. Are there any details on how it’s implemented? How does it execute Ruby? Does it have its own bytecode? Does it compile to machine code on the fly? What will make it faster than MRI?

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Re:Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust by p4lindromica on Sunday August 04, 2019 @12:39PM (#20607564)

Thank you for your kind words.

Growing pains of blowing up on HN lol, I do not have this written down yet, but I have a ticket to start documenting this [0].

The idea is to have a core set of traits [1] that when implemented allow an implementation to load an interpreter agnostic Ruby core and Ruby Standard Library.

There is currently only one interpreter that implements these traits, and it is backed by mruby. My ultimate goal is to move off of mruby to either an MRI-backed interpeter via rutie or a native Rust-implemented backend + VM + parser.

[0] https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/issues/102 [1] https://artichoke.github.io/artichoke/artichoke_core/

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Re:Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust by p4lindromica on Sunday August 04, 2019 @12:42PM (#20607592)

For an example of how Artichoke can be faster than MRI, I'm currently working on extending the oniguruma-based `Regexp` implementation to have a fast-path backed by the Rust regex crate in some circumstances. In testing this can speed up `String#scan` by a factor of 10 for some `Regexp`s

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