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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I write software, and love learning how to do it even better.

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