Rubinius

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Rubinius rewrites MRI 1.8 internals into a new C++ VM that is type-safe inside the VM, with safe C++ casts that raise Ruby TypeError instead of segfaulting, and it just moved to the main branch after six months of work. Primitives are declared in-place with build-time markers and auto-exported, method dispatch uses global and inline caches plus specialized executors, and method contexts live in a fast context-area to avoid GC churn. Extensions can be rebuilt and isolated to recover from segfaults. Microbenchmarks are strong, real apps are still slow; LLVM JIT and algorithmic refactors are in active exploration.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 10:00Safe Casts
3. 17:54Exporting Methods
4. 26:12Method Dispatch
5. 26:41Hierarchy Look Up
6. 32:58Spaghetti Stack
7. 38:24Native Method Contacts
8. 41:44Recover from Seg Fault
9. 46:04Improving Algorithmic Performance

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