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Rubinius 2.0 Preview Release

by ichverstehe on 6/7/11, 11:22 PM with 39 comments

• by fijal on 6/8/11, 7:06 AM

  According to my very unscientific measurements (I didn't bother looking which files are potentially auto generated), I got:

    182kloc of C (.c files)
    110kloc of c++ (.h + .cpp files)
    558kloc of ruby (.rb files)
  

  That puts C/C++ at roughly 40% of total. Unless proven otherwise I would say "ruby written in ruby" is a bit untrue.

• by andrewvc on 6/8/11, 12:08 AM

  Awesome, the great thing about rubinius is playing around with the internals, since they're mostly written in ruby. The C++ core is quite tiny actually.

• by ssmoot on 6/8/11, 12:42 AM

  Obviously great news. It dampens my enthusiasm a bit to know the same company funds development of JRuby however.

  EngineYard really should clarify their vision behind maintaining two VMs. Going beyond the obvious "JRuby is for integration with existing J2EE infrastructure" angle would be nice.

  Under what circumstances would they actually stand behind Rubinius as the better choice? Is the MRI C extension API compatibility an official feature now? Is it that I could switch from REE to Rubinius without having to worry about finding alternatives for all the libs I'm using that carry C-extension baggage?

• by MartinMond on 6/8/11, 1:51 AM

  Is running Rails on Rubinius 2.0 still slower than on MRI 1.9.2? I hope not, but I need MRI 1.9.2 as a baseline (and yes, MRI is itself horribly slow)

• by senthilnayagam on 6/8/11, 12:19 AM

  muti-core support is interesting, installing now on my mbp