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by askaboutit 2882 days ago
I believe Truffle was 3-4x+ faster than Jruby. This is what Ruby needs. But Oracle will ruin it.
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jimmy1 2882 days ago
headius is at a jvm conf right now talking about optimizing JRuby, and here's a recent video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vxIncIm2D4
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repolfx 2882 days ago
Well, JRuby runs on the JVM which is developed by Oracle. Basically, if you're a ruby user who wants good performance there's not many other places to turn.

But you know Oracle acquired Java long ago and other than Google, I'm unaware of Oracle causing problems for any other users. And Google is a rather special case - they reimplemented an incompatible version of Java without licensing it. You're not going to be doing that.

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Twirrim 2879 days ago
It's open source, the community can always fork it and move forwards if they dislike what Oracle does with it.
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