Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality

Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by lettergram on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:21PM (#11082421)

> Were the "Ruby will always be slow" people simply wrong?

Simple answer, yes. Not saying that Ruby is fast now, however Ruby doesn't necessarily always have to be slow. Just like any languages/framework/etc. It can be made faster, although the amount of work to get there may be substantial.

At the time ruby was really slow, and with no real progress and a waning number of groups working to improve it. Now, it appears people are making progress and working on it.

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Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by whistlerbrk on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:23PM (#11082450)

This is correct, I would highly highly recommend reading "Deoptimizing Ruby" available here, http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/deoptimizing/ for more information on WHY making Ruby fast is hard and what the Truffle+Graal does to make it fast.

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Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by ch4s3 on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:36PM (#11082558)

That's a great read even if you aren't a Rubyist, especially the discussion of monkey patching.

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