On 5/25/06, Tim Azzopardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First, congratulations for JavaOne, wish I could have been there.
I'm sure lots of people would be happy to chip in. However the state of
anonymous sourcforge is a showstopper for me. I know it doesn't affect you guys
as commiters so you may not be thinking about it too much after the euphoria of
JavaOne. Please switch to something that works soon!
- Tim
Charles O Nutter wrote:
> Tom and I are starting the process of gathering and merging changes for
> an upcoming 0.9.0 release. This will include all recent fixes. If you
> have code you've been waiting to submit, now is the time to finish it up
> and send it to us. We're looking at doing an RC within the next week and
> a full release shortly after.
>
> This release will include: (my short list)
>
> - Scoping fixes for IRB
> - Many, many, many fixes to allow Rails to run unit tests, ActiveRecord,
> and a simple app (consider that none of our recent Rails work was in
> 0.8.3, and now a full app works)
> - Some early, primitive optimizations
> - Further improvements to zlib and ever-closer to full RubyGems support
> - Potentially a new YAML parser, a la RbYaml from Ola Bini
>
> There may be incremental 0.9.1 releases over the summer as we continue
> to improve Rails support, add further and broader-reaching
> optimizations, and begin compiler work. I personally am voting for the
> following milestones to constitute a 1.0 release:
>
> - RubyGems working 100% (negotiable if 90% of use cases function
> correctly and Rails is installable)
> - Full Rails support
> - Rake working 100% (so the many people interested in using it for
> builds will have a JRuby release to point at)
> - Continuations and 100% stackless (negotiable if we can support all the
> above without)
>
> We are also beginning a real push for optimization of JRuby interpreted
> mode after the 0.9.0 release, so gentleman (and ladies, should any be
> listening), start your profilers. A few areas we know are problematic:
>
> - Object creation is through the roof in almost every scenario; better
> caching and smarter interpretation could go a long way
> - Reducing the overhead of walking and re-walking the AST for every
> invocation would help immensely
> - Reducing the weight of all system objects could also be helpful
>
> JRuby has a lot of momentum now and a lot of people are starting to take
> notice. Now's the time to really hit things hard.
>
> --
> Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com <http://headius.blogspot.com>
> JRuby Developer @ jruby.sourceforge.net <http://jruby.sourceforge.net>
> Application Architect @ www.ventera.com < http://www.ventera.com>
>
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