wilson
A pure ruby x86 assembler.
Wilson is a pure ruby x86 assembler. No, really. Worst Idea Evar.
- Generates x86 machine code directly. No dependencies. No system calls.
- Registers ruby methods with #defasm, or run inline assembly with #asm.
- Terrible, yet, awesome.
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class X defasm :superfast_meaning_of_life do eax.mov 42 to_ruby eax # ruby fixnums = (n << 1) + 1 end def inline_asm_example n = 1000 asm :count_to_n do eax.xor eax count = self.label eax.inc eax.cmp n jne count to_ruby eax end end end p X.new.superfast_meaning_of_life # => 42 p X.new.inline_asm_example # => 1000 |
Get The Code
If you just want to use wilson, you can install it via RubyGems:gem install wilson
If you want to hack on wilson, clone it from GitHub:
git clone git://github.com/seattlerb/wilson