Rubinus - Smalltalk inspired Ruby VM August 1, 2007
Posted by hasham2006 in Ruby Language.trackback
Borrowing ideas from smalltalk-80 Evan Phoenix (of EngineYard) has created a new Ruby VM. The VM is written in C with Ruby like syntax. Language known as Garnet (formerly known as Cuby). Most parts of VM are written in Ruby itself except GC , Core VM (opcodes) and Primitives which are written in Garnet.
The link to InfoQ article is:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/rubinius-interview-part-one
Also look at Ruby VM performance shootout here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/02/fascinating_ruby_implementatio.html
[...] initiatives are underway to address the Ruby speed problem. These include the Smalltalk-inspired Rubinus that Sun is supporting; the somewhat obscure Maglev; and - of course - JRuby. This runs on the Java [...]