Evan Phoenix presented on the progress of the Rubinius project. Some key points: 1) Rubinius uses modern garbage collection techniques that decrease memory usage and increase throughput compared to Ruby 1.8. 2) When forking processes, Rubinius sees little to no change in memory footprint unlike Ruby 1.8 which doubles memory usage on a fork. 3) Rubinius aims to be a Ruby implementation written enti