Jan
12
Recorded at: JRuby: The Pain of Bringing an Off-Platform Dynamic Language to the JVM
Filed Under Architecture, Conference Presentation, Open Source Tools |
In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, Charles Nutter discusses bringing JRuby to the JVM, why Ruby is hard to implement, JIT compilation, precompilation, core Ruby implementation, Java library method access, method call semantics, scopes, open classes, heap-based frames, library challenges, strings, regexps, I/O, green threads, POSIX features, C lib support and future plans.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/nutter-jruby-jvm-lang-summit