rbv8 -- A Ruby VM running on Google V8 super VM.

V8 (http://code.google.com/p/v8/) is running Javascript,
a highly dynamic language, faster then fast.
Ruby is a super highly dynamic language too!
Ruby must be uber fast on V8, no?
Lets see ...

== TODO
This is a prototype! If this project seems cool enough, a complete refactoring
will be required.

* Remove dependency over YARV parser and bytecode emitter by porting to js.
* ...

== Benchmarks

sample/concat.rb (taken from http://hotruby.yukoba.jp/benchmark/bm_loop_times.html)
  rbv8:           0.987 sec
  Firefox 3:      3.636 sec
  Safari 3:       4.368 sec
  Opera 9.50:     4.679 sec
  Ruby 1.8.6:     9.565 sec
  Ruby 1.9.0:     9.669 sec
  Rubinius 0.8.0: 15.576 sec
  JRuby 1.1 b1:   42.691 sec

On the other hand, the other scripts in sample are super slow on rbv8...

== Install

You need:

Ruby 1.9 installed as ruby19 (or change it in bin/rbv8) is required:
  ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/

Make sure your meet V8 Pre-requisites: http://code.google.com/apis/v8/build.html#pre_reqs

Then run:
  rake build

== Running your cute Ruby script

For now, all is hardcoded in bin/rbv8 so pls run from root dir:

  bin/rbv8 your_ruby_script.rb

== Licence

Ruby Licence.

== Copyright

js/hotuby.js: yukoba (http://hotruby.accelart.jp/)
other: http://macournoyer.com