Charles and Thomas couldn’t be here in person so they’re skyping and controlling the screen to give an overview with running Ruby on Java. Good talk overall, though slightly marred by skype connection difficulties. One bright spot was the talk was a great advertisement for Yugma – the web conferencing tool that integrates with skype and makes remote screen sharing easier. If you’ve run WebEx a lot, you may want to take a look at Yugma.
- They gave a good overview of performance in jruby vs just ruby, particularly with the ways the Hotspot VM optimizes Java code.
- Developers are unaware of how far Java performance has come.
- The Hotspot VM has had 500 man-years of development
- JRuby on Rails 2.2 – with threadsafe rails and glassfish shows impressive memory improvements
- 1000 requests @ 55MB of usage vs 1000 requests @ 233 MB w/Rails 2.0.2