Re:Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production
by nikbackm on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @02:16PM
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True, but since V8 is open-source, shouldn't it now be possible for the Ruby developers to borrow the techniques from it that made Javascript so much faster?
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Re:Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production
by vidarh on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @04:56AM
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None of the techniques that's gone into V8 are all that novel. Most of them - at least the ones that are relevant to Ruby - stems from research around Smalltalk and Self that's been well known for a very long time. The hard/time consuming part is implementing them.
Re:Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production
by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @02:33PM
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Ruby isn't JavaScript. Studying V8's solutions to particular problems with making JavaScript efficient may help people seeking to make an efficient Ruby implementation, but how much is easily transferrable I don't know.