Title: North West Ruby User Group
Description: A group of people in the North West of England, with an interest in all things Ruby or Rails.
Start Time: 19:00
End Time: 21:00
An experimental new Ruby implementation that benchmarks faster than the rest.
This month we’re going deep down into the interpreter with a talk from Chris Seaton on how he’s used Truffle, AST parsing and type specialisation to write a new high-performance Ruby implementation that benchmarks faster than JRuby.
Chris is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, where his researching programming languages and irregular parallelism. He is also a member of the Virtual Machine research group at Oracle Labs, where he works on implementing programming languages using the next generation of Java Virtual Machine.
- 7:00pm: A Very Fast Ruby on the JVM
- 7:30pm: Q&A
- After: Post-talk drinks and discussion