Ruby: A Study in Hashes All Over the Freaking Place As with many dynamic languages, early (for some definition of “early”) implementations of Ruby used hash tables all over the place. Let’s just take ...

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I was recently asked for a list of “hard problems” a Ruby implementation really needs to solve before reporting benchmark numbers. You know…the sort of problems that might invalidate early perf ...

Alternative Ruby implementations seem to be on the move throughout the Ruby community. JRuby is the furthest along at this point, so I decided to talk to Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, two of the ...

As I saw on Bertrand Le Roy's blog tonight, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is working on a real implementation of Ruby for the .NET platform. Our goal is to create a compiler for the Ruby ...

"Rubinius is a project to watch", so says Charles Nutter in his post Rite, Rubinius, and Everything — I think he's right. Evan is hard at work making things work better in rubinius. He's now got ...