This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
There’s been plenty of mentions of the potential for speed gains, but here’s a short walk through what’s possible when Java and Ruby are on good speaking terms.