<s>
Rubinius	B-Application
was	O
an	O
alternative	O
Ruby	B-Language
implementation	O
created	O
by	O
Evan	O
Phoenix	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
"	O
provide	O
a	O
rich	O
,	O
high-performance	O
environment	O
for	O
running	O
Ruby	B-Language
code.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Rubinius	B-Application
follows	O
in	O
the	O
Lisp	B-Language
and	O
Smalltalk	B-Application
traditions	O
,	O
by	O
natively	O
implementing	O
as	O
much	O
of	O
Ruby	B-Language
as	O
possible	O
in	O
Ruby	B-Language
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
also	O
has	O
a	O
goal	O
of	O
being	O
thread-safe	B-Operating_System
in	O
order	O
to	O
be	O
able	O
to	O
embed	O
more	O
than	O
one	O
interpreter	O
in	O
a	O
single	O
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
2007	O
to	O
2013	O
,	O
Engine	O
Yard	O
funded	O
one	O
full-time	O
engineer	O
to	O
work	O
exclusively	O
on	O
Rubinius	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
version	O
2.4.0	O
,	O
support	O
on	O
PowerPC64	B-General_Concept
is	O
enabled	O
.	O
</s>
