Comments on: Rubinius Retort

By: zenunit sensei

zenunit sensei — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:23:30 +0000

It’s interesting that your comparison between c and ruby is based on lines of code, when we all know that ruby’s lines of code do far more than c’s lines of code.

In other words,
ary.map{|a| a.items.array_of_forefathers}.flatten.uniq

is far more powerful than c can hope to be in one line of code.

Perhaps you shouldn’t be comparing this, but rather POTENTIAL lines of c code that the relevant ruby code would require if it were written in c?

I’d wager it’d be a darn sight more than the same number.

Zenunit Sensei

By: mrfeinberg

mrfeinberg — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:42:04 +0000

As an English major, I commend your use of the Anglo-Saxon idiom “bald-faced”.

By: evanphx

evanphx — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:53:47 +0000

Ha! Oops!

I gotcha now.

By: Mr eel

Mr eel — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:16:44 +0000

I think we have some wires crossed Evan, I was being rude to a cheeky commenter ‘nothanks’, not yourself.

That’s what I get for being a bastard.

By: knowtheory

knowtheory — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:14:10 +0000

evan, i think Mr. Eel was referring to the dude who posted as “nothanks”. I take Mr. Eel’s point to be that the hatin’ should stop, and that JRuby team has done good work pushing the Ruby world towards greener pastures than the 1.8 vm, since everyone is always criticizing it!

By: evanphx

evanphx — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:58:11 +0000

Mr eel: no need to name call. JRuby is doing a great job, when did I say they weren’t.

I’ve a big advocate of multiple Ruby implementations, it means that the community and ecosystem are healthy.

By: Mr eel

Mr eel — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:17:12 +0000

nothanks you snarky cow. The JRuby crew do good work and should be congratulated for it.

Bring on the implementations I say. The more the better. Pitfalls be damned, it’s worth the risk if we can see Ruby move beyond the poor and oft-pummeled MRI 1.8.

By: nothanks

nothanks — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:42:28 +0000

Do you think that VM or JRuby will be stick?

Well, Sun, er “JAVA” has hired itself 1-3 top-tier fanboys, so at least until it changes its ticker symbol to “FAIL” (1-3 years), you’d better hope non-J Rubies survive…

By: Programming Quiz

Programming Quiz — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:26:52 +0000

Rubinius is a noble attempt and I hope that logic is brewed out of the ruby in ruby.

By: Matt Todd

Matt Todd — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:59 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever heard anywhere that Rubinius was better because it was “Ruby in Ruby”, or that it would be better than JRuby, even. Ever.

Truth be told, more often than not, myself and I’m sure others would think it would perform worse simply for the fact that Ruby is slow, but this is flawed thinking to some degree.

I look forward to both (and others) improving a great deal over time. Keep your dicks in your pants and keep up the good work.