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by eregon 7y ago
Thanks for the praise on ruby/spec :) OTOH, I'm sure there are such bugs where the specs don't cover every corner-case behavior. Specs are added when finding bugs in alternative implementations and following MRI's NEWS f
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by eregon 8y ago
Right, I should just rename it to "Classic benchmarks", since it's also from other sources.
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by eregon 9y ago
Yes, this is quite annoying, we are working on it and there is an issue opened about it: https://github.com/graalvm/truffleruby/issues/118 It is also possible to build TruffleRuby and Graal entirely from open
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by eregon 10y ago
On the other hand, I am confident it's written in a much nicer way than most NES emulators (look at cpu.rb/ppu.rb). The goal of optcarrot is explicitly not to be the "practical"or "the fastest NES emulator". Fr
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by eregon 10y ago
Actually, JRuby+Truffle can already install gems using Bundler, although it uses some hacks to work around issues like currently-missing OpenSSL. Realistic Rails apps will not work yet, but there is fast progress in this area, we started th
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Running Optcarrot, a Ruby NES Emulator, at 150 Fps with the GUI(eregon.me)
59 points by eregon 10y ago|11 comments
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by eregon 10y ago
The object graph would only be handed to the receiver once it's fully transferred I would imagine.
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by eregon 10y ago
To add to the examples, Truffle currently has interpreters for unmanaged languages such as C/Fortran (with Sulong), dynamic languages such as Ruby and JS, statistics/math like R and functional like Clojure. The interopability is d
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by eregon 11y ago
I would advise against concluding anything with < 20% gain, the changes often impacts readability (the intention becomes less clear) and might as well be measurement errors or just be insignificant for any sort of real application. Not t