YARV: yet another RubyVM: innovating the ruby interpreter

Ruby- an Object-Oriented scripting language- is used world-wide because of its ease of use. However, the current in-terpreter is slow. To solve this problem, some virtual ma-chines were developed, but none with adequate performance or functionality. To fill this gap, I have developed a Ruby interpreter called YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM). YARV is based on a stack machine architecture and features op-timizations for high speed execution of Ruby programs. In this poster, I introduce the Ruby programming language, discuss certain characteristics of Ruby from the aspect of a Ruby interpreter implementer, and explain methods of implementation and optimization. Benchmark results are given at the end