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MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf

Posted by kdawson on from the rails-oh-i-get-it dept.

murphee ends along a report from InfoQ: "Gemstone demoed [MagLev,] their Ruby VM built on their GemStone S64 VM, to an ecstatic audience. Gemstone's Smalltalk VM allows OODBs of up to 17 PetaBytes, with none of the old ActiveRecord nonsense: the data is persisted transparently. The Gemstone OODB also takes care of any distribution, allowing the Ruby VM and data to scale across many servers (Cheerio, memcached!). There's also an earlier quite technical interview with Gemstone's Bob Walker and Avi Bryant about MagLev."

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  1. Re:Ruby Shootout by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you think having a C-like syntax is a flaw then you are not thinking rationally.


    We can generalize that to the rallying cry of the lonely nerd: If you don't agree with me you're either stupid or crazy.

    You, sir, are an ass.