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Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby programming language using LLVM.

Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby programming language.The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++, incorporating LLVM to compile bytecode to machine code at runtime. The bytecode compiler and vast majority of the core classes are written in pure Ruby

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Rubinus or MRI 1.9.3 (YARV)?

So, I have a few questions that I have to ask, I did browse the internet, but there weren't too many reliable answers. Mostly blog posts that would cancel each-other out because they both praised different things and had benchmarks to "prove their…
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What values for RUBY_ENGINE correspond to which Ruby implementations?

The method I know of to detect the Ruby implementation (e.g., MRI, JRuby, Rubinius, etc.) at run time is to check the global constant RUBY_ENGINE: $ ruby -e 'puts RUBY_ENGINE' ruby What's a reasonably comprehensive list of known Ruby…
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How do you write a compiler for a language in that language?

Possible Duplicates: How can a language's compiler be written in that language? implementing a compiler in “itself” I was looking at Rubinius, a Ruby implementation that compiles to bytecode using a compiler written in Ruby. I cannot get my head…
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How can I redefine Fixnum's + (plus) method in Ruby and keep original + functionality?

This throws me a SystemStackError in 1.9.2 Ruby (but works in Rubinius): class Fixnum def +(other) self + other * 2 end end but there is no super for + (based on other errors). How can I access the original + functionality?
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What are the advantages of using rubinius

Could you give me some examples were is worth it use rubinius, like in this post: http://yehudakatz.com/2009/08/31/simplifying-rails-block-helpers-with-a-side-of-rubinius/
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Which ruby interpreter are you looking forward to?

There are multiple Ruby implementations in the works right now. Which are you looking forward to and why? Do you actively use a non-MRI implementation in production? Some of the options include: Ruby MRI (original 1.8 branch) YARV (official…
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why tail recursive gcd is faster than while loop with rubinius

I have these two implementations of gcd function : def gcd1(a,b) if a==b a elsif a>b if (a%b)==0 b else gcd1(a%b,b) end else if (b%a)==0 a else gcd1(a,b%a) end end end def gcd2(a,b) …
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How do I tell which Ruby interpreter I'm using?

I've seen this thread, but my question is maybe more basic: Given that the response from the accepted answer in that thread[1] is for me, "/Users/username/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0/bin/ruby", how do I know if that's MRI, JRuby, etc? What would it look…
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Performance difference between MRI Ruby and jRuby

While doing some benchmarking to answer this question about the fastest way to concatenate arrays I was surprised that when I did the same benchmarks in with jRuby the tests were a lot slower. Does this mean that the old adagio about jRuby being…
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How can a language be interpreted by itself (like Rubinius)?

I've been programming in Ruby for a while now with just the standard MRI implementation of Ruby, but I've always been curious about the other implementations I hear so much about. I was reading about Rubinius the other day, a Ruby interpreter…
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"\xC2" to UTF-8 in conversion from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8

I have a rails project that runs fine with MRI 1.9.3. When I try to run with Rubinius I get this error in app/views/layouts/application.html.haml: "\xC2" to UTF-8 in conversion from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8
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How do I cleanly remove rubinius?

I used http://railsinstaller.org/ to install a bunch of packages. Then I created a rails app by calling rails new myApp and then rails serverbut unfortunately I got this error: Click Here So I think I would just rather remove rubinius or do some…
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Where are mixins implemented in Rubinius?

Where in the Rubinius source is the code that is responsible for including modules?(Specifically, to place module as super class of object class.)
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Creating a language on the Rubinius VM

I'm looking to play around with the Rubinius VM to create a langauage, but just reading the documentation, I'm still quite lost on how to get started. Even looking at the projects, I still can't seem to figure out where the parsing and using the vm…
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High performance calculations with Ruby?

My colleagues normally use C or Fortran for high performance calculations (math on large arrays of data). I wonder if there is any possibility for Ruby code to be compiled/converted and come close to optimized C code in terms of performance? There…
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