I heard about the MacRuby project not too long ago and was quite excited about it for several reasons, the first is that although it’s early days yet and version 0.4 doesn’t cover the full ruby spec, it’s showing signs of being a well performing ruby implementation. Others have already gone into significant detail about the differences, but to summarise: The original ruby implementation isn’t the best at memory management for long running processes, and this is the most recent of several oth...[Read full story]
