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21st September 2007 - Link Blog

The Rubinius Sprint. Sun are throwing a ton of resources at Ruby, because as Tim Bray says, “it’s not fast enough”. Imagine where they’d be if they’d invested this kind of support in Jython five years ago...

Posted 21st September 2007 at 11:32 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 21st September 2007.

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