Ruby is now ludicrously fast.
Ludicrious JIT is a Ruby 1.8 JIT which uses the libjit library that was written for dotgnu pnet's JIT core, very similar to what rubydium was trying to do. But libjit's come a long way in the last 3 (!) years, so if you're a Ruboi I suggest you try this out anyway.
It is a testament to the efforts of Rhys, Aleskey and Klaus to keep the library truly modular, reusable and independent of pnet's internals.
--The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
-- Merrick Furst
Does penny arcade use Ruby on Rails. I knew that they used Postgresql, but Rails is quite a bit of stretch for an image serving system.
By the way, the most outrageous penny-arcade ever was the Fruit F**ker 2000, which they subsequently replaced with a hmmm ... And of course the ipod tribute version of the Fruit F**ker.
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