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2008

Maglev has begun to publish glowing performance numbers well in advance of actually running anything at all. They haven't started running the RubySpecs and have no compatibility story today. You can't actually get Maglev yet and run anything on it. It's worse than Vaporware, it's Presentationware.

Charles Nutter

# 1st June 2008, 11:29 pm / charles-nutter, maglev, ruby

MagLev recap. 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).

# 1st June 2008, 11:26 pm / avi-bryant, gemstone, maglev, railsconf, ruby, smalltalk