Atomic Spin

Last week Software GR was lucky enough to host Charles Nutter. Charles is a principal on the JRuby project and has worked on JRuby for more than 4 years. This was a fantastic and in-depth technical talk ranging from an overview of the JVM’s “other” languages and then diving deep into the guts of what makes JVM languages work.

We looked at JVM bytecode and Charles showed us some of the strategies JRuby uses to achieve good performance and how that will change with Java 7 and cool new dynamic language-supporting features like method handles and invokedynamic.

Don’t sweat it if you missed this talk: there is more coming up! Check out the Software GR web site for the latest schedule. The rest of the year is going to be great!