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!
