Ruby Kaigi 2008 is happening. I’m sure there other posts on the Ruby Kaigi happening however here are some of my own hasty scribbles for anyone that cares…
Introduction Speech
- This is the 3rd year of the conference
- One theme of this year is multiple implementatios
- More people coming into the Ruby community and we need to greet the (Dave Thomas’ speech from last year)
- Two tracks this year (I mostly followed the main track)
The first set of presentations from the main track were from the Ruby implementors.
Koichi SASADA – Ruby VM Development
- 1.9.0-2 released as of 6/20/2008 (mainly bug fixes)
- A little discussion of 1.9.1 Roadmap (Something about 1.9.1 being the more stable release?)
- A plethora of interpreters available now (lists all of them)
- Sasada-san felt a little sheepish over Matz mentioning taking only about technology is ‘boring’ since his talk focused on mainly technology
- University of Tokyo has become a haven for since Sasada-san now has a laboratory (wahoo!) which means…
- Ruby related research-projects
- Student Research Projects on Ruby
- Parallel Thread Execution
- Better multi-core support
- Memory resource usage (or was that resource contention?) can be a problem
- Multiple-VMs
- Run Multiple VMs in same Ruby process
- Jruby + Nakada-san are the primary drivers
- The JRuby guys are ready to implement it (waiting on API) and Rubinius seems to have one already
- API done
- bootstrap done
- Creation of interpreter mostly done (seems to have some small issues?)
- Still needs documentation (What project doesn’t?)
- Ruby implementations needs FP optimization for HPC
- Ruby 1.9.x quite fast compared to other implementations (according to the Benchmarks Sasada-san showed)
- Create an Optimal interpreter for “you”
- Make it easier for Ruby to be used in embedded environments
- Make it easier for Ruby customized for specific environments (iPhone anyone?)
- Make it possible to plug in and out the core pieces
- Byte code serialization and embedded
- Make the GC customizeable
