IBM’s open source JVM project could also speed Ruby, PythonIBM's internal OMR project makes maintaining JVM easier across platforms -- and may give other languages a performance boost A new project initiated by IBM to create a toolkit for language runtimes is about to go open source, and it could be used to speed up the performance of existing runtimes for many languages. The OMR project takes pieces of IBM’s J9 Java virtual machine, decouples them from J
