Rubinius

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Rubinius is a virtual machine and compiler for Ruby created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design, Rubinius seeks to "provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code"^[1].

1 Goals
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Goals

Thread safety. Rubinius intends to be thread-safe and embeddable. It does not currently meet this goal due to some components borrowed from the mainline Ruby interpreter.
Clean, readable code that is easy for users to understand and extend.
Reliable, rock-solid code. Valgrind is used to help verify correctness.
Bring modern techiques to the Ruby runtime. Pluggable garbage collectors and code optimizers are possible examples.