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		vidarh on April 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production Thanks. It's really fascinating, and what fascinates me in particular with Ruby is exactly that once you start looking into it, there are new problems around every corner, and trying to make it as "ahead of time as possible" makes it even trickier - I absolutely agree with you that there are parts that are much easier to do if you JIT, though, and I'll have to go there anyway to handle "eval"..

pjmlp on April 9, 2014 [–]

Yep, I keep on jumping between "love JIT" and "love AOT" in terms of implementations.

Currently my feeling is that most languages could benefit from both.

A JIT like environment for live coding and portable deployment.

And a AOT one for certain types of deployment where thin runtimes are desired.

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