IBM is developing a just-in-time (JIT) compiler called Testarossa based on its Open Runtime (OMR) toolkit. The goal is to integrate the JIT compiler into MRI Ruby to improve performance without changing how MRI works. So far, the JIT supports most opcodes and can run Rails applications, but performance gains are modest. IBM hopes to collaborate with the Ruby community to further optimize Ruby and
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