From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-01-18T06:52:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:27610] Re: better GC?

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:39 PM, mathew <meta@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:13, Brent Roman <brent@mbari.org> wrote:
>>
>> If compatibility with 'C' extensions is not a major concern for you, I'm
>> curious to learn why you haven't ��tried using JRUBY?
>
> Does JRuby run under Java RTS? Regular Java runtimes aren't realtime any
> more than MRI is.

The current Java RTS from Sun is an implementation of Java SE 5.0,
which is a supported runtime by JRuby. So yeah, it probably does. I
don't know enough about RTS to know if we're doing anything that would
be problematic. Grabbing a 90-day trial to try it myself.

- Charlie