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Chris Seaton @ VMSS16: JRuby+Truffle: Why it’s Important to Optimise the Tricky Parts

Chris Seaton talks about JRuby+Truffle, explaining how the Truffle and Graal combination optimises the tricky parts of Ruby and why it outperforms other Ruby implementations.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it for specifics on how Truffle and Graal achieve strong dynamic-language performance.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
softdevteamuk
Topic
dynamic language jit compilation
Format
talk
Level
advanced
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2019

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From the original HN conversations

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  • Chris Seaton gave this talk recently about JRuby+Truffle and some specifics about how it optimises so well compared to other Ruby implementations. [VIDEO] Previous discussion [LINK]

    matthewrudy on Hacker News · 2016-07
    In Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming language design
  • I hear the Truffle+Graal combination is getting very good results about Ruby. Here is video about it (pointed to the missing-method example): [1] They're hitting 35x in some benchmarks [2]. Most benefits being in workloads where Ruby has to continuously talk to C; the result-passing …

    BenoitP on Hacker News · 2016-12
    In The Ruby+OMR JIT

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