Videos tagged with MagLev

Author: Bob Walker, Allan Ottis

Summary A look at the different Ruby virtual machines (JRuby, MagLev, IronRuby, Rubinius, MacRuby) and how to choose what fits best within the enterprise. Bio Jason Seifer is a web developer and 1/2 of RailsEnvy.com, where he helps produce a weekly news podcast for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers. His programming interests include Ruby, Rails, Javascript, full text search, and Objective-C. Ab...

MagLev was a show from the last RailsConf (2008). Presentation and demos of the product are really impressive. Recently, Brian Takita asked in the JRuby mailing list: JRuby + TerraCotta == Maglev? What an idea! In the last few days I’ve tried to make something useful and I’m happy to have something to show. The first demo runs with Nailgun. The basic idea is to share a single Java V...

A war is being waged between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The imperial forces are laboring tirelessly to stamp out such dangerous ideas as late-binding, and automatic memory management. Based on long experience, such ideas are known to cause severe performance problems at best, and to bring down the Empire with errors at worst. The year, 2008 Ruby vs. Java*, or ca 1990 Smalltalk vs. C++, ...

All Rubyists know that in its current state, Ruby is slow. And our usual answer to critics is "it's fast enough." But there's no reason Ruby can't be a really fast language. New VMs are making Ruby faster, and we'll probably see Ruby get much faster over the next two or three years. But every Rubyist would benefit from an understanding of what's going on under the hood. This talk delv...

Summary In this interview, Avi Bryant talks about working on GemStone's MagLev, a Ruby implementation built on the GemStone S64 VM. Avi explains the reasons for MagLev, the merits of GemStone's persistence and distribution features, and the future with multiple Ruby implementations. Bio Avi Bryant is the co-CEO of Dabble DB, a Vancouver startup focused on web-based data management and collabora...