One of the aspects we have to work around building and improving a dynamic language implementation on the Java Virtual Machine is the way the JVM loads and executes bytecode. In order for JRuby to take advantage of the Hotspot just-in-time (JIT) compiler,
This is an insanely long and gnarly essay about implementing, then optimizing, the low-level bits of a pure-Ruby XML parser. If you obsess about XML reading, deterministic finite automata, or Ruby code optimization, you may find some part of it interestin
Name:Adam Schepis Location:Milford, Massachusetts, United States I am a 24 year old Software Engineer living between Worcester and Boston. I work for Symantec as a Software Engineer.