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Could you summarize what benefits moving to Rubinius would buy Ruby developers? I'm an outsider looking in, so while I know what the MRI and Rubinius are, I don't know why I'd prefer to use Rubinius instead.
* Written mostly in Ruby * No GIL * JIT * Better garbage collector * Better debugging tools Unfortunately, Rubinius is not yet complete, so it's not a suitable MRI replacement for now.
Thanks very much!
Without the GIL what does that mean for extensions written in C. Would they need to be rewritten?