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.

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

Fork me on GitHub

If you want to hack on wilson, clone it from GitHub:

git clone git://github.com/seattlerb/wilson

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