All green lights on Windows 7 so far: thanks and congratulations! On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Thomas E Enebo <tom.en...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby > 9.0.0.0-pre1 > > - Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/ > - Download: http://www.jruby.org/download > > JRuby 9000 is the new version of JRuby, representing years of effort and > large-scale reboots of several JRuby subsystems. > > Major features of JRuby 9000: > > - Ruby 2.2 compatibility, minus features listed below > - A new optimizing runtime based on a traditional compiler design > - New POSIX-friendly IO and Process > - Fully ported encoding/transcoding logic from MRI > > This is a preview release, and we know there’s work to do. We are > releasing now to get user feedback on Ruby 2.2 functionality and overall > stability. > > We hope all Ruby users will try out this release and report issues on our > issue tracker at http://bugs.jruby.org. We also encourage users to join > our IRC channel (#jruby on Freenode) and mailing lists. You may also follow > @jruby on Twitter for updates. > > Ruby 2.2 features yet to be implemented: > > - Refinements #1062 > - Enumerator#feed > - Kernel#spawn close-on-exec support > - ObjectSpace::WeakMap#each and Enumerable inclusion > - ObjectSpace::count_objects > - Thread#handle_interrupt is not yet fully functional > - POSIX-friendly IO, TTY, and Process logic is not used on Windows > > We also have additional work to do on the new runtime: > > - Startup time is a bit slower. > - Memory usage is higher. > - Straight-line performance is a little bit slower. > > The new runtime gathers more information about Ruby code and performs more > analysis and optimization than our old runtime. There’s great potential > here to bring Ruby performance to native Java or C, but we are just > starting the optimization phase of that work. We will do our best to get > startup time, memory use, and performance on par with 1.7.x (or better) > before the final release of JRuby 9000. > > Truffle > > JRuby 9000 includes an in-development version of support for the Truffle > language implementation framework and Graal VM from Oracle Labs. In future > releases, Truffle will provide an extremely high performance and compatible > backend for JRuby. The Truffle backend supports all Ruby language features, > but so far only some of the core and standard libraries. It has no support > for RubyGems or Rails, does not work on Windows, and is not ready to be > tested with applications at this stage. More information on Truffle and > Graal can be found in the JRuby Wiki. > > > -- > blog: http://blog.enebo.com twitter: tom_enebo > mail: tom.en...@gmail.com > -- Christian
