I've started working on porting Ruby (one of the best things from Japan) to the Nintendo DS (another of the best things from Japan).. (all I need is to be eating sushi while working on it and I would be very happy, the Sake will wait until I have been successful :) )
I've been looking at yarv for some time, and checked out the latest today. I'm quite impressed by the benchmarks. My though now is that yarv would be a good base for my port, although the footprint might be a bit large. It's worth exploring, however.
Dave
Dave Astels
technical lead, big newt