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Current JRuby status - AKA The what's-cool-and-happening

~5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
This is just a small update on what's going on in JRuby development at the moment. The first and most important item is that Tom has merged his block-work...

JFokus post-mortem

~5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Yesterday marked the first one day conference in Sweden focused on Java. All in all, it was a resounding success. I am personally very happy about how well...

Serial JRuby

~5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Things are really moving along faster than ever in JRuby land. It's so fun! As my last entry told you, Hpricot is now available for JRuby (and Java) people...

Hpricot goodness

~5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI. [Linked from: Redhanded]
This is just so cool, I cannot contain it. For those of you who haven't heard about Hpricot, it is one of why the lucky stiff's incredibly cool tools (which...

Fractured blogging

~5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
My blogging in the future will be a little bit fractured (or more fractured, some might say), since I have been invited to write at Inside Java for APress...

Announcing JvYAMLb, a fork

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
The conversion to using byte-arrays as the basis of our String work in JRuby has led me to realize that JvYAML just doesn't cut it anymore. The performance...

Bytes bites. Or maybe not.

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Well, the byte arrays are in, for good and evil. We had to wrap them in a counterpart to StringBuffer, but backed by byte[] instead, since all that explicit...

Faster YAML with byte processing

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
As noted in my last post, I have started work on converting JvYAML into JvYAMLb. Right now I have finished the work on the Scanner and the Parser, and it...

Results of jvYAMLb

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Well, the YAML-based loading is in JRuby trunk. On the way, some parts of the codebase got seriously simplified. Very nice. The final result, with regard...

Ragel performance

almost 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I did some performance testing on the old and new Resolver implementation. The testing have some stupid tests that exercise bad parts of both implementations...