JRuby Compiler - faster than MRI

According to Charles Nutter himself his recent work on finishing the JRuby Compiler already made JRuby run faster than MRI (Matz Reference Implementation = the "original" c based Ruby implementation). Which is very nice - congrats!

You can read about the details on this blog post, as well as info on what is still missing from the compiler:

http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/09/jruby-compiler-update-and-nice.html

It's gonna be a long waiting time until the release of JRuby 1.1 ;-)

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