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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 / maglev, avi-bryant, railsconf, smalltalk, ruby, gemstone

Croquet. Open-source collaborative virtual world environment built on top of Squeak, a bit like a decentralised version of Second Life.

# 10th June 2007, 10:50 am / secondlife, croquet, squeak, virtualworld, open-source, smalltalk