One of the beautiful things about JRuby is that for performance-intensive code, you can drop to Java instead of dropping to C. Java's almost as fast, and a who

One of the beautiful things about JRuby is that for performance-intensive code, you can drop to Java instead of dropping to C. Java's almost as fast, and a whole heck of a lot nicer to program in. If Surinx is able to produce Java-like speeds, that means that you never have to drop out to a different language at all. That's pretty awesome, and it would open up a whole new world to Ruby programmers. I hope some of this work gets pushed into JRuby. I'll take 5x speed boosts any day, constant factor or not.