{"id":678,"date":"2008-06-21T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T21:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/06\/21\/rubykaigi-2008-day-1-part-1-notes\/"},"modified":"2008-06-21T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T21:08:57","slug":"rubykaigi-2008-day-1-part-1-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/06\/21\/rubykaigi-2008-day-1-part-1-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"RubyKaigi 2008 Day 1 Part 1 Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby Kaigi 2008 is happening.  I&#8217;m sure there other posts on the Ruby Kaigi happening however here are some of my own hasty scribbles for anyone that cares&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Introduction Speech<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the 3rd year of the conference<\/li>\n<li>One theme of this year is multiple implementatios<\/li>\n<li>More people coming into the Ruby community and we need to greet the (Dave Thomas&#8217; speech from last year)<\/li>\n<li>Two tracks this year (I mostly followed the main track)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first set of presentations from the main track were from the Ruby implementors.<\/p>\n<h3>Koichi SASADA &#8211; Ruby VM Development<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1.9.0-2 released as of 6\/20\/2008 (mainly bug fixes)<\/li>\n<li>A little discussion of 1.9.1 Roadmap (Something about 1.9.1 being the more stable release?)<\/li>\n<li>A plethora of interpreters available now (lists all of them)<\/li>\n<li>Sasada-san felt a little sheepish over Matz mentioning taking only about technology is &#8216;boring&#8217; since his talk focused on mainly technology<\/li>\n<li>University of Tokyo has become a haven for since Sasada-san now has a laboratory (wahoo!) which means&#8230;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruby related research-projects<\/li>\n<li>Student Research Projects on Ruby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Parallel Thread Execution<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Better multi-core support<\/li>\n<li>Memory resource usage (or was that resource contention?) can be a problem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Multiple-VMs<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Run Multiple VMs in same Ruby process<\/li>\n<li>Jruby + Nakada-san are the primary drivers<\/li>\n<li>The JRuby guys are ready to implement it (waiting on API) and Rubinius seems to have one already<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>API done<\/li>\n<li>bootstrap done<\/li>\n<li>Creation of interpreter mostly done (seems to have some small issues?)<\/li>\n<li>Still needs documentation (What project doesn&#8217;t?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>High Performance Computing (HPC) on Ruby<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruby implementations needs FP optimization for HPC<\/li>\n<li>Ruby 1.9.x quite fast compared to other implementations (according to the Benchmarks Sasada-san showed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Atomic Ruby (aka Customizeable Ruby)<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Create an Optimal interpreter for &#8220;you&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Make it easier for Ruby to be used in embedded environments<\/li>\n<li>Make it easier for Ruby customized for specific environments (iPhone anyone?)<\/li>\n<li>Make it possible to plug in and out the core pieces<\/li>\n<li>Byte code serialization and embedded<\/li>\n<li>Make the GC customizeable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>More work  memory optimizations (Sounded like there was the need for more profiling)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby Kaigi 2008 is happening. 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