Announcement
LA Ruby Conference 2010
This is the second year for the LA Ruby Conference. Come and join us to learn about ruby and related technologies and software development practices that might change the way you do your job.
Registration for the conference is open. The conference on Saturday is $199.00. The training workshops on Friday are $60.00 each.
February 19-20, 2010
Holiday Inn
Burbank, CA
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Submitted by: ice7994 people liked this proposal.
The system's binary interface exists under the candy coated Ruby world that most developers live in. If you can learn to embrace evil amazing things are possible. This talk will cover the basics of the 64bit application binary interface showing off a Ruby threading performance patch and a memory profiler which exemplify the power you can possess with an in depth knowledge of your system's ABI and other low level interfaces. Along the journey to darkness, we'll cover useful concepts like virtual memory and threading until we arrive at the binary interface completing our journey into the Ninth Circle.
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Submitted by: ice7998 people liked this proposal.
This talk is an in depth look at the problems with the threading implementation in MRI Ruby 1.8 and our proposed solution which boasts up to a 10x performance boost and introduces a Fibers API (which is compatible with Ruby 1.9). We will start by explaining a few core ideas about systems programming. We'll take a tour of various threading and I/O models comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each. From there we'll examine some of the problems with the threading implementation in MRI and how our patch remedies the situation. We'll finish up by showing off a demo or...
Read full proposalSubmitted on / Updated on: 12/14/09 / 12/14/09Status: Pending