Re: [jruby-user] [ANN] JRuby 9.0.0.0.pre1 Released

Thank you very much for this release and all your work on it! Have been
looking forward to it for quite some time - will give it a spin and
report what I find :)

9k - here we go!
On 20.01.2015 22:43, Thomas E Enebo wrote:
> The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby
> 9.0.0.0-pre1
>
> - Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
> - Download: http://www.jruby.org/download
>
> JRuby 9000 is the new version of JRuby, representing years of effort
> and large-scale reboots of several JRuby subsystems.
>
> Major features of JRuby 9000:
>
> - Ruby 2.2 compatibility, minus features listed below
> - A new optimizing runtime based on a traditional compiler design
> - New POSIX-friendly IO and Process
> - Fully ported encoding/transcoding logic from MRI
>
> This is a preview release, and we know there’s work to do. We are
> releasing now to get user feedback on Ruby 2.2 functionality and
> overall stability.
>
> We hope all Ruby users will try out this release and report issues on
> our issue tracker at http://bugs.jruby.org. We also encourage users to
> join our IRC channel (#jruby on Freenode) and mailing lists. You may
> also follow @jruby on Twitter for updates.
>
> Ruby 2.2 features yet to be implemented:
>
>  - Refinements #1062
>  - Enumerator#feed
>  - Kernel#spawn close-on-exec support
>  - ObjectSpace::WeakMap#each and Enumerable inclusion
>  - ObjectSpace::count_objects
>  - Thread#handle_interrupt is not yet fully functional
>  - POSIX-friendly IO, TTY, and Process logic is not used on Windows
>
> We also have additional work to do on the new runtime:
>
>  - Startup time is a bit slower.
>  - Memory usage is higher.
>  - Straight-line performance is a little bit slower.
>
> The new runtime gathers more information about Ruby code and performs
> more analysis and optimization than our old runtime. There’s great
> potential here to bring Ruby performance to native Java or C, but we
> are just starting the optimization phase of that work. We will do our
> best to get startup time, memory use, and performance on par with
> 1.7.x (or better) before the final release of JRuby 9000.
>
> Truffle
>
> JRuby 9000 includes an in-development version of support for the
> Truffle language implementation framework and Graal VM from Oracle
> Labs. In future releases, Truffle will provide an extremely high
> performance and compatible backend for JRuby. The Truffle backend
> supports all Ruby language features, but so far only some of the core
> and standard libraries. It has no support for RubyGems or Rails, does
> not work on Windows, and is not ready to be tested with applications
> at this stage. More information on Truffle and Graal can be found in
> the JRuby Wiki.
>
>
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> mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

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