From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2009-03-01T13:01:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Priorities for JRuby 1.3 On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:39 PM, James Britt wrote: > Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > >> >> But there's others that we may need to prioritize: >> >> * 1.8.7 support > > Skip it. +100 >> * Ruby execution performance (how fast do you want it?) > > Silly question. :)  REALLY fast. See my posts on the Ruby Benchmark Suite list for that. But yeah ... subject to the usual computer science tradeoffs between memory and processor usage, as fast as you can get it for the core interpreter. >> * Specific library performance (YAML, IO, Java) >> * More Java integration refactoring (esp. subclassing) >> * "Compiler #2" to produce normal Java classes from Ruby > > That could be quite interesting. Well ... how about tuning the core engine for Rails / Merb and RSpec, rather than singling out some lower-level libraries? > >> * Modularization of core classes that aren't valid on applet, Android, >> secured envs, etc; also may allow shipping smaller runtimes > > Yes to more Android support (so to speak). There was a bit of applause here last week when I told the local Tweeple about the Android port. And it put the final nail in the coffin of every other "smart phone" I'd consider buying, although I probably wouldn't buy an Android either. I'm not really interested in a phone I can / have to program, when I can get a really nice headset and Skype for my laptop. :) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.