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Brian Ford
Rubinius Developer, Engine Yard

Website | @brixen

Brian has been programming with Ruby since BR (before-Rails), which means practically since the dark ages. He has worked with several companies doing web development with Rails. In December 2006 he began contributing to Rubinius, launching the effort to write executable specs for Ruby. He is now employed by Engine Yard to work full-time on Rubinius. In the 10 hours per week not spent on Rubinius, he’s probably snowboarding on beautiful Mt Hood. He also jots a random thought or two at blog.brightredglow.com.

Sessions

2:35pm Thursday, 07/24/2008

Who Wants a Faster Ruby?

Ruby
Location: F151

Brian Ford (Engine Yard)

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Ruby is an excellent object-oriented programming language that is gaining in popularity. While programmer productivity in Ruby is often touted, the performance of Ruby is often disappointing relative to other languages. This talk will examine the performance characteristics of Rubinius, one of the newest and most popular alternative Ruby implementations, using the terrific DTrace utility. Read more.