shared memory

Distributed Ruby with the MagLev VM

GemStone team made a splash with MagLev at RailsConf '08 where they attracted a fair dose of attention from the attendees. Based on an existing GemStone/Smalltalk VM, it promised a lot of inherent advantages: 64-bit, JIT, years of VM optimizations, and built-in persistence and distribution layers.

Talk: The Ruby Guide to *nix Plumbing, Eleanor McHugh

Summary

A lightning tour of writing multi-process Ruby applications in the *nix environment with nothing more than a vanilla Ruby runtime and a knowledge of system call numbers.

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