The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer with 700 MHz (can be overclocked to about 1.1 GHz) and originally 256 MB memory, which has recently received an upgrade to 512 MB. Yukihiro Matz announced mruby in 2011 as Ruby implementation that is easily embeddable into other application and has a low memory footprint. mruby was open sourced in May 2012 with a C API It is technically possible to
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