NWRUG

North West Ruby User Group

A Very Fast Ruby on the JVM

Thursday 19th September 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

This month we’re going deep down into the interpreter with a talk from Chris Seaton on how he’s used Truffle, AST parsing and type specialisation to write a new high-performance Ruby implementation that benchmarks faster than JRuby.

Chris is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, where his researching programming languages and irregular parallelism. He is also a member of the Virtual Machine research group at Oracle Labs, where he works on implementing programming languages using the next generation of Java Virtual Machine.

The schedule

  • 7:00pm :: A Very Fast Ruby on the JVM
  • 7:30pm :: Q&A
  • After     :: Post-talk drinks and discussion

The location

The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab) 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN.

About NWRUG events

Our events are free and open to anyone with an interest in Ruby, regardless of experience level. There is no need to register, just show up on the day! We want to keep NWRUG as welcoming and inclusive as possible so we ask that all attendies follow our Code of conduct. If you have any questions, get in touch.