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A Brief History of Ruby

An Exploration of How Ruby's Interpreter
Has Changed over the Years

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  1. A Brief History of Ruby An Exploration of How Ruby's

    Interpreter Has Changed over the Years Ruby The Object-Oriented Scripting Language

  2. Ruby was “Born” February 24, 1993 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2

    2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  3. Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0

    1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  4. MRI (Matz’ Ruby Interpreter) 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0

    1.0 1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  5. 0.95 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9

    1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  6. Object Oriented 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8

    1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  7. Mark-and-Sweep Garbage Collection 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0

    1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  8. Parses source into Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) 0.95 2.7 2.6

    2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  9. Bison (derivative of YACC) 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0

    1.0 1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  10. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 def foo(a, b) a + b end Source

  11. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 def foo(a, b) a + b end Source

  12. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 def foo(a, b) a + b end Tokens

  13. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 AST DEFN ARGS BLOCK OPCALL LVAR [:a, :b] :+ :a :foo LVAR :b def foo(a, b) a + b end

  14. “Runs” the AST 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0

    1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  15. rb_eval in eval.c 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0

    1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  16. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  17. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 1.0

  18. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 Christmas 1996

  19. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 1.8

  20. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 1.9

  21. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 “Lazy Sweep” Garbage Collection

  22. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 Introduced YARV “Yet Another Ruby VM”

  23. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 Compiles AST to VARV Instruction Sequences (ISEQ)

  24. AST DEFN ARGS BLOCK OPCALL LVAR [:a, :b] :+ :a

    :foo LVAR :b def foo(a, b) a + b end 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  25. YARV ISEQ DEFN ARGS BLOCK OPCALL LVAR [:a, :b] :+

    :a :foo LVAR :b == ISeq:<main> putobject :foo putiseq foo opt_send :define_method, argc: 2 leave == ISeq:foo local table (size: 2, argc: 2) [ 2] a@0<Arg> [ 1] b@1<Arg> getlocal a@0 getlocal b@1 opt_plus :+, argc: 1 leave 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995 2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  26. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 iseq_compile_each in compile.c

  27. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  28. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 2.0

  29. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 “Bitmap Marking” Garbage Collection

  30. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 2.1

  31. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 “Generational” Garbage Collection

  32. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 2.2

  33. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 “Incremental” Garbage Collection

  34. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 2.6

  35. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 MJIT

  36. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 Generates C code from ISEQ

  37. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007

  38. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 2.7

  39. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 “Compacting” Garbage Collection

  40. 0.95 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 1.8 1.9 1995

    2019 2018 2015 2014 2013 1996 2003 2007 3.0?

  41. Pat Shaughnessy Ruby Under a Microscope Matias Korhonen Ruby Like

    it’s 1995 Nate Bekropen A People’s History of the Ruby Garbage Collector References