[#395238] rubygem: ispunity (unite all your internet connections) — Arun Tomar <tomar.arun@...>

Dear friends,

12 messages 2012/05/01

[#395250] Overwriting one Ruby array or arrays with another — Craig Law <lists@...>

Hi

14 messages 2012/05/02

[#395258] array of strings - finding letter combinations — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...>

Hi All,

16 messages 2012/05/02

[#395357] Why Enumerator#next does not return more than one value? — Földes László <lists@...>

If I have an Enumerator which yields elements of a mathematical series

10 messages 2012/05/07

[#395373] How to use Data_Wrap_Struct to assign the DATA VALUE to an exsiting Ruby object? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, my code receives an arbitrary klass name (provided by the user)

8 messages 2012/05/07

[#395429] passing via instance variable or regular () — sam jam <lists@...>

def first

10 messages 2012/05/10

[#395463] I'm looking for a Metaprogramming Project — Phil Stone <lists@...>

Hello,

19 messages 2012/05/11

[#395548] A million reasons why Encoding was a mistake — Marc Heiler <lists@...>

Newcomer wants to try Ruby.

15 messages 2012/05/15
[#395561] Re: A million reasons why Encoding was a mistake — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2012/05/15

[#395595] Re: A million reasons why Encoding was a mistake — Brian Candler <lists@...> 2012/05/16

I will add that the OP is not entirely alone in his opinion.

[#395551] How to ensure that a block runs entirely after other threads? (Thread.exclusive does not "work") — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, I expected that in the following example code, thread t1 would not

8 messages 2012/05/15

[#395575] GUI with ruby on windows — David Acosta <lists@...>

hello friends, i am a begginer and i have a litlle question, how can i

17 messages 2012/05/16

[#395604] what is going wrong here? — roob noob <lists@...>

Notice the initialization of both classes in each of the examples, if

20 messages 2012/05/16

[#395646] rb_gc_register_address() or rb_gc_mark()? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, I've bad experiences with rb_gc_register_address(), it does never

16 messages 2012/05/17

[#395686] reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2012/05/18
[#395694] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — Regis d'Aubarede <lists@...> 2012/05/18

Hello,

[#395697] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/05/18

Regis d'Aubarede wrote in post #1061272:

[#395698] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — Regis d'Aubarede <lists@...> 2012/05/18

Sebastjan H. wrote in post #1061276:

[#395699] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/05/18

Regis d'Aubarede wrote in post #1061277:

[#395750] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file - issues when using Shoes — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/05/21

Hi,

[#395754] Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file - issues when using Shoes — "Sebastjan H." <lists@...> 2012/05/21

Sebastjan H. wrote in post #1061483:

[#395740] ? Ruby through CGI and Rails — Shaun Lloyd <list@...>

Hi everybody,

22 messages 2012/05/21
[#395764] Re: Ruby through CGI and Rails — Brian Candler <lists@...> 2012/05/21

Shaun Lloyd wrote in post #1061455:

[#395786] Re: Ruby through CGI and Rails — Shaun Lloyd <list@...> 2012/05/22

On 22/05/12 03:37, Brian Candler wrote:

[#395838] Re: Ruby through CGI and Rails — Brian Candler <lists@...> 2012/05/23

Shaun Lloyd wrote in post #1061602:

[#395787] Changing self class from inside a method?? — David Madison <lists@...>

Let's start off with the assumption I want a method that allows an

10 messages 2012/05/22

[#395841] Memory-efficient set of Fixnums — George Dupre <lists@...>

Hi,

25 messages 2012/05/23

[#395883] looking for a ruby idiom : r=foo; return r if r — botp <botpena@...>

Hi All,

11 messages 2012/05/24

[#395966] Am I justified to use a global variable if it must be used in all scopes? — Phil Stone <lists@...>

Hello,

12 messages 2012/05/27

[#396010] does this leak more than the size of the string via timing side channels — rooby shoez <lists@...>

string1 = "string"

16 messages 2012/05/29

[#396038] Is it possible to avoid longjmp in exceptions, Thread#kill, exit(), signals? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, my Ruby C extension runs a C loop (libuv) without GVL. At some

8 messages 2012/05/29

Re: break down of differences between interpreters?

From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2012-05-19 12:44:56 UTC
List: ruby-talk #395719
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
> * Licensing concerns may come into play. =C2=A0Rubinius, MIR/YARV, and
> =C2=A0(surprisingly) IronRuby are all distributed under more permissive
> =C2=A0licenses than JRuby these days. =C2=A0This might turn out to be imp=
ortant
> =C2=A0for some deployment scenarios.

This is false. JRuby is licensed under three licenses, and you can
pick whichever you want to use: GPL, LGPL, and CPL. The CPL is a more
permissive license like Apache or BSD.

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0

> * The fact the JRE is tied to Oracle now, and Oracle has been going
> =C2=A0around rattling its litigation saber at anyone dealing with alterna=
te
> =C2=A0Java implementations makes a lot of people wary about using the JRE
> =C2=A0where it is not strictly necessary.

Oracle is going after *one* alternative Java implementation (Android,
which Google tries to sell as not being Java) largely because they
(Oracle) failed to successfully come up with a way to recreate mobile
Java and want a piece of this pie. It will likely come to almost
nothing in the courts.

Sun/Oracle has also stated a few times that Android could or could
have used OpenJDK, and they encourage forking and experimentation on
top of the GPL-based OpenJDK codebase. This isn't a fight about the
JRE...it's just politics and greed.

> * Rubyists in general tend to target MRI/YARV first and foremost, and
> =C2=A0other implementations are often treated as second-class citizens fo=
r
> =C2=A0purposes of compatibility testing. =C2=A0My impression is that Rubi=
nius will
> =C2=A0have the least problem with this long-term, because it will probabl=
y be
> =C2=A0the closest thing to MRI/YARV for purposes of compatibility. =C2=A0=
JRuby is
> =C2=A0an apple that falls rather farther from the tree than that.

The fact that JRuby falls far from the tree is a good thing.
Implementations dependent on C extensions are going to always have
that cross to bear, for example, dealing with badly-behaving C code,
reduced parallelism, and GC complications. JRuby + JVM language-based
extensions have no such limitations.

- Charlie

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