Are any of the ruby VM's done using the LLVM toolchain?

I like the LLVM idea. To be honest, I do not much care for Ruby, I'd rather use Perl, or Python, or .... ( it's a long list ).

Nothing personal, it's a great language, but I just prefer others.

However, Ruby has so开发者_JAVA技巧 many good ideas that I might need to STFU and just learn it, if nothing else to debug the tools.

Before I do so, I am wondering if there is a practical and usable implementation of Ruby done using the LLVM toolchain?

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Well, you have llvmruby, RubyComp and more important, Rubinius, but MacRuby also uses LLVM for "optimization passes, JIT and AOT compilation of Ruby expressions".