http://simonwillison.net/2008-06-01T23:26:28+00:00Simon Willison2008-06-01T23:26:28+00:002008-06-01T23:26:28+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/1/href/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.avibryant.com/2008/06/maglev-recap.html">MagLev recap</a></strong></p> Avi Bryant reports on the RailsConf demo of MagLev, a new closed-source Ruby implementation built with Gemstone (Smalltalk) technology that packs some impressive features (transaction based concurrency across multiple VMs) and exciting benchmarks (6-100x faster than the standard Ruby interpreter). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/avi-bryant">avi-bryant</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gemstone">gemstone</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/maglev">maglev</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/railsconf">railsconf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby">ruby</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/smalltalk">smalltalk</a></p>