With the focus on performance, this second release of JRuby has proven to be quite a contender. "There have been more and more reports of applications exceeding Ruby 1.8.6 performance; we are even beating Ruby 1.9 in some microbenchmarks," reports Thomas Enebo. JRuby is an 100 percent pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.

Besides performance, other major features included in this release:

• Compilation of Ruby to Java Bytecode (in AOT and JIT modes)
• Oniguruma port to Java
• Refactored IO implementation
• Improved memory consumption
• Thousands of compatibility fixes

JRuby 1.1 can be download from: JRuby 1.1 can be download from: http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/

"Please try your applications against JRuby 1.1 and give us feedback. If you find poor performance or a compatibility problem, then we want to know about it; message us on IRC, email our mailing list, or file a bug," Enebo requests.

For more, visit the JRuby homepage. [...read more...]

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