Rubinius 1.1 Speeds Up Ruby

Ruby developers have multiple choices when it comes to which implementation of the language they want to run. One of those implementations, Rubinius, has now issued its version 1.1 update, promising performance gains and memory improvements.

Rubinius is an alternative implementation to the "Matz Ruby Implementation," or MRI, which is named after Ruby's creator and chief designer, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. Evan Phoenix, the lead Rubinius developer, sees a number of differences between Rubinius and MRI that developers might want to consider.

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