Gregg’s “Speeding up Ruby, without the Rails” Presentation
He points out that the C library stuff is going to cause blocking, because Ruby’s threading manager doesn’t know when it can stop execution. He demos this with mysqlplus, showing 10 queries with the blocking driver, and then showing mysqlplus which is the non-blocking driver. 10x speedup.
He points […]
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Thursday AM Keynote by Matz
This is Matz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto
He’s talking about his love of languages, and why he got into Ruby.
He’s addressing some of the criticisms, that it’s slow, poorly implemented, embedding issues…he says the list of complaints goes on forever.
But, now he’s talking about why is Ruby good. He says people say it’s enjoyable, that […]
I’m here at RubyConf with some of the Cloudspace team. Also, Corey has come in from North Carolina, gracing us with his presence, and his beard.
I’ll probably be posting from some of the sessions as I go. Long posts will be on this blog, short things and ‘overheards’ will be on my Twitter.
If you’re here, […]
I’m sure everyone has seen pop culture references to the “nuclear football”, a.k.a. the briefcase kept near the U.S. President that would be used if an emergency nuclear attack were required.
I was thinking about security this morning — codes and keys. Maybe it’s all the political discussion lately, but my mind went to the nuclear […]