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MRI's Method Caches

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Re: MRI's Method Caches

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Post by gregholmberg »

> ... At this point, it started seeming somewhat impractical to go and patch rails and all these other gems that I use, so I decided to investigate the amount of effort that would be required to actually solve the problem in MRI. ...

I admire James. Wading into the interpreter takes balls.

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Post by splitrocket »

hmottestad wrote: post #4
kyzyl wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks :-P I got excited for a moment that someone on HN was doing something in my former field... nope, just another web thing. Is it just me or is that a bit of an odd name? For me when I see MRI I think Magnetic Resonance Imagining, but is that just because of my field?

Nope. It's probably not the smartest thing to call your tech. Those who know what it is will know, everyone else will think MRI (magnetic). I think a good guideline for choosing an acronym is how many hits it already has on google. MRI: 73,800,000

There are 17,576 possible 3 letter acronyms. I would argue that its awefully hard to find one that isn't overloaded. Worse even when your acronym is comunityn generated. "Matz' Ruby Interpreter" likely wasn't named by matz himself.

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Post by kyzyl »

famo wrote: post #8
kyzyl wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks :-P I got excited for a moment that someone on HN was doing something in my former field... nope, just another web thing. Is it just me or is that a bit of an odd name? For me when I see MRI I think Magnetic Resonance Imagining, but is that just because of my field?

Lol, because of your "field"

Heh, for once I actually didn't intend the pun ;-)

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Post by danielharan »

kyzyl wrote: post #3
hmottestad wrote: post #2

MRI - Not the magnetic one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_MRI

Thanks :-P I got excited for a moment that someone on HN was doing something in my former field... nope, just another web thing. Is it just me or is that a bit of an odd name? For me when I see MRI I think Magnetic Resonance Imagining, but is that just because of my field?

"just another web thing" really isn't accurate when talking about the Ruby interpreter.

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Post by hmottestad »

colbyh wrote: post #7
hmottestad wrote: post #4

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Nope. It's probably not the smartest thing to call your tech. Those who know what it is will know, everyone else will think MRI (magnetic). I think a good guideline for choosing an acronym is how many hits it already has on google. MRI: 73,800,000

Yeah, and while we're at it god forbid someone name a language after a colloquialism for a popular brewed and caffeinated drink. Or the island the beans for said drink sometimes come from. Or a snake that sometimes lives on that island... If I told my parents I worked in Ruby all day they'd think I started a career in precious gem mining, who cares? "Those who know what it is will know..." are exactly 100% of the peo…

Ruby isn't an acronym. Neither is Java. JVM is though, and the entire first page on google for JVM is about the java virtual machine. Had they called it MRI for java viRtual MachIne, it would still not be all over the front page.

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Post by kyzyl »

danielharan wrote: post #14
kyzyl wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks :-P I got excited for a moment that someone on HN was doing something in my former field... nope, just another web thing. Is it just me or is that a bit of an odd name? For me when I see MRI I think Magnetic Resonance Imagining, but is that just because of my field?

"just another web thing" really isn't accurate when talking about the Ruby interpreter.

You're right, of course. Another comment fallen victim to the Ruby==Rails laziness fallacy :-)
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