Al Hoang

June 21, 2008

RubyKaigi 2008 Day 1 Part 1 Notes

Filed under: Open Source, geek, programming, ruby — hoanga @ 4:08 pm

Ruby Kaigi 2008 is happening. I’m sure there other posts on the Ruby Kaigi happening however here are some of my own hasty scribbles for anyone that cares…

Introduction Speech

This is the 3rd year of the conference
One theme of this year is multiple implementatios
More people coming into the Ruby community and we need to greet the (Dave Thomas’ speech from last year)
Two tracks this year (I mostly followed the main track)

The first set of presentations from the main track were from the Ruby implementors.

Koichi SASADA – Ruby VM Development

1.9.0-2 released as of 6/20/2008 (mainly bug fixes)
A little discussion of 1.9.1 Roadmap (Something about 1.9.1 being the more stable release?)
A plethora of interpreters available now (lists all of them)
Sasada-san felt a little sheepish over Matz mentioning taking only about technology is ‘boring’ since his talk focused on mainly technology
University of Tokyo has become a haven for since Sasada-san now has a laboratory (wahoo!) which means…

Ruby related research-projects
Student Research Projects on Ruby

Parallel Thread Execution

Better multi-core support
Memory resource usage (or was that resource contention?) can be a problem

Multiple-VMs

Run Multiple VMs in same Ruby process
Jruby + Nakada-san are the primary drivers
The JRuby guys are ready to implement it (waiting on API) and Rubinius seems to have one already

API done
bootstrap done
Creation of interpreter mostly done (seems to have some small issues?)
Still needs documentation (What project doesn’t?)

High Performance Computing (HPC) on Ruby

Ruby implementations needs FP optimization for HPC
Ruby 1.9.x quite fast compared to other implementations (according to the Benchmarks Sasada-san showed)

Atomic Ruby (aka Customizeable Ruby)