Shopify Invests in Research for Ruby at Scale - Shopify
May 16, 2022
Summary
This post details Shopify's investment in academic research for Ruby, specifically highlighting contributions to language engineering, garbage collection (MMTk), and interpreter optimization. It introduces Professor Laurence Tratt's work on JIT compilers, Professor Steve Blackburn's MMTk for garbage collection, and Dr. Stefan Marr's research on interpreter startup and warmup time. The post emphasizes the importance of evaluating research against real-world workloads and the benefits of academic-industry collaboration for the Ruby community.
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