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With the release of Java 7 (invokedynamic) the performance of these dynamic languages (like ruby and python) may become much less of a factor (JRuby and Jython)

by sahglie 15y ago

With the release of Java 7 (invokedynamic) the performance of these dynamic languages (like ruby and python) may become much less of a factor (JRuby and Jython). At least that's what the JRuby folks imply: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/jruby-1-6-released-now-what/ http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/jruby-1-6-released-now-w... Punch Line from Link: "There’s a very real chance that invokedynamic could improve JRuby performance many times, putting us on par with our statically-typed brothers like Java and Scala. And that means you can write Ruby code without fear. Awesome."

mark_l_watson 15y ago
Right on! I was going to make the same comment until I saw yours. Charles Nutter has been very enthusiastic about invokedynamic based speed improvements - can't wait. A little off topic: as a consultant it seems like the demand for Clojure was been tremendous: Clojure is a nice language and very performant. It will be really interesting to see how much large speed improvements in JRuby will cut into Java's, Clojure's and Scala's developer market-share.
equark 15y ago
Is there any evidence this is actually true? Currently, IronPython and IronRuby do not have great performance on the CLR despite dynamic support.
igouy 15y ago
JRuby JVM 1.6.0_25 :: JRuby JVM 1.7.0 http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/shootout/shootout/website/websites/u32q/data/data.csv?r1=1.775&r2=1.776 http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/shootout/shootout/website/w...