[jruby] TruffleRuby Status, start of 2017

TruffleRuby Show archive.org snapshot is an experimental Ruby implementation that tries to achieve ~10x performance over MRI Show archive.org snapshot .

This has been on our radar for a while. They seem to have made significant progress running Rails, reducing start-up time and becoming runtime-independent of the JVM Show archive.org snapshot .

Also see Running Optcarrot, a Ruby NES emulator, at 150 fps with the GUI! Show archive.org snapshot for some practical experiments with TruffleRuby.