MagLev – Tea-Driven Development https://blog.mattwynne.net Matt Wynne taking it one tea at a time Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:02:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 165828820 MagLev: Death of the Relational Database? https://blog.mattwynne.net/2009/01/07/maglev-death-of-the-relational-database/ https://blog.mattwynne.net/2009/01/07/maglev-death-of-the-relational-database/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:26:49 +0000 http://blog.mattwynne.net/2009/01/07/maglev-death-of-the-relational-database/ Continue reading "MagLev: Death of the Relational Database?"

]]> I just got around to watching Avi Bryant’s talk on MagLev, a new Ruby VM built on top of GemStone’s Smalltalk VM.

http://www.vimeo.com/1147409

Presumably this is the kind of thing Smalltalkers have been able to do for decades, but to me the prospect of having this kind of freedom on a Ruby platform is very exciting. Terrific stuff. I wonder what performance is like.

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