Welcome to JRuby, Chris! This sounds very interesting! Looking forward to trying it :-)
On 2014-01-06, at 21:47, Chris Seaton <chrisgsea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m very happy to announce that today there is a new backend in JRuby, based > on two new JVM technologies being researched by Oracle Labs. It’s called the > Truffle backend as it uses a framework for implementing languages called > Truffle, and is designed to work with a new JVM JIT compiler called Graal. > Documentation linked below gives the technical details and pointers to more > information, but in general the goal is that the Truffle backend is > significantly faster and simpler than the current backends as it uses a more > expressive interface to the JVM than is possible by emitting bytecode. > > We’ve been talking to Charlie Nutter and Thomas Enebo about this work for > some time now, and we’re creating this new branch after they’ve told us that > it’s welcome in the repository. > > The code is in a branch called ‘truffle’ - > https://github.com/jruby/jruby/tree/truffle. > > There is a blog post with more general background information at > http://blog.jruby.org/2014/01/truffle_graal_high_performance_backend/, and > there is a wiki page with some details of how to get started with the code at > https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle. > > I’m Chris Seaton - I work for Oracle Labs part-time alongside my PhD at the > University of Manchester in the UK. I’m now going to be working on the > Truffle backend within JRuby, so you can consider me a new paid contributor > to JRuby! I hope to be a valuable member of the community, so please feel > more than free to get in touch with me. -- Uwe Kubosch u...@kubosch.no http://kubosch.no/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
