Good news everybody!

rVM started to be a quite actively developped again. A friend of mine murphy from http://murfy.de/ has joined the development team, so we’re two now. I greatly respect him and he is quite knowledgeable when it comes to ruby, but most importantly enough he’s crazy enough to jump in a projekt as this. So he will be a great gain for rVM.

Actually he already was very helpful. We have set down the last to days and worked on it. A few good results have come up, including that we finally got a (somewhat) usable benchmark. rVM is only about 20 times slower then the rhino VM when interpreting ECMA script. That does should slow but hell it is fast enough for the moment (murphy stopped me to optimize and focus on making it work more conform first – which is one of the good things that already came from this cooperation :P).

So the ECMA interpreter is working better and better, meaning that after a few more fixes and additions I’ll release version 0.0.17 soon (in the next days I hope). That release will feature a nice new feature for ECMA, a core library that starts to provide a ECMA-like access to function objects like Math.