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The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV

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Re: The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV

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Post by epochwolf »

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MRI = Matz's Ruby Interpreter = Ruby 1.8

YARV = Yet Another Ruby VM = Ruby 1.9

REE = Ruby Enterprise Edition = Ruby 1.8 with a modified garbage collection system to make it friendly to vforking.

These are all versions of ruby written in C.

Re: The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV

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Post by nkassis »

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Ruby virtual machines. MRI is the VM for ruby 1.8 (Matz ruby implementation and Matz is the creator of ruby), YARV is the newer incanation that was developed for ruby 1.9 these are all written in C. There plenty of other ruby VMs like rubinius or jruby etc.

Re: The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV

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Post by judofyr »

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MRI - Matz' Ruby Interpreter (the default Ruby)

REE - Ruby Enterprise Edition (unofficial branch of Ruby 1.8)

YARV - Yet Another Ruby VM (the VM used in Ruby 1.8)

(Although in this case I think he means MRI = 1.8 and YARV = 1.9)

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