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MagLev - Transparent, distributed object space for Ruby

maglev.github.com

83 pointsdamncabbage14 comments

This was pretty interesting when announced back in 2008, but I thought the project was dead. Are there plans to update it to 1.9? They posted some optimistic benchmarks back then, how do they compare to modern VM competition? I'm interested to know more, but I'd like to see a bit more info and context.

> but I thought the project was dead

"MagLev 1.0.0 was released on October 31, 2011"

https://github.com/MagLev/maglev/tree/master/examples/rails/...

link to example rails 3.1 app if anyone is interested

Object persistance works with ActiveRecord?

On Sqlite???https://github.com/MagLev/maglev/blob/master/examples/rails/...

Built on top of GemStone/S, aka GemStone Smalltalk.

Apologies for the "editorialized" title, but the actual page's title is lacking in context.

No problem. Makes sense to me.

I agree completely. I hope this article has legs.

Errmm... what's with all the similar comments across multiple posts?

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jwallaceparker

OMG. It looks like a housemate had some fun with my account last night. Ugh.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it stable and fast enough for serious work?

It's built on top of GemStone/S which is an incredibly mature object database/persistance mechanism, while I can not speak for MagLev itself, if the guys at GemStone Inc, now VMware, are prepared to push this out as a v1.0, then I would be willing to bet yes.

Caveat is that while the Ruby implementation on top may not be 100% compatible with standard ruby (again I can't comment) the underlying technology is bulletproof, these guys have been doing object persistance w/ very high tps for 25+ years

This is an exciting technology, and if I worked with ruby at all, I would definitely be checking it out.

Sorry thought I'd throw in a link to the GemStone/S product site

http://www.gemstone.com/products/gemstone

My specific experience is with GLASS

http://seaside.gemstone.com/

Aren't continuations being removed from Ruby?

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