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Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by nextos on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:33AM (#11081150)
Thanks, very interesting. I didn't know about this being able to run R inside JVM. What will happen with all existing packages that have C or C++ dependencies? Perhaps it would be doable with a bridge? Having R tightly embedded in the JVM would be amazing.
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Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by eonwe on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:35AM (#11081170)
In some cases they could perhaps do the same thing that's done with Ruby: interpret the C-extensions.

It's not as crazy as it may seem and JRuby benefits hugely from it: http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/cext/

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Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by ch4s3 on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:24PM (#11081898)
I'm pretty sure they aim to interpret the c, but I don't want to speak for Chris.
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Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by mike_hearn on Friday February 12, 2016 @03:34AM (#11085953)
They don't just interpret the C, they JIT compile it.
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