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TruffleRuby aims to:
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* Run idiomatic Ruby code faster
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* TruffleRuby is the fastest Ruby implementation for many CPU-intensive benchmarks.
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* Run Ruby code in parallel
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* Boot Ruby applications in less time
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* Execute C extensions in a managed environment
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* TruffleRuby does not have a global interpreter lock and runs Ruby code in parallel.
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* Support C extensions
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* Many C extensions work out of the box, including database drivers.
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* Add fast and low-overhead interoperability with languages like Java, JavaScript, Python and R
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* Provided by GraalVM, see the [Polyglot documentation](doc/user/polyglot.md).
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* Provide new tooling such as debuggers and monitoring that work across languages
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* Includes a profiler, debugger, VisualVM, and more, see the [Tools documentation](doc/user/tools.md).
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* All while maintaining very high compatibility with the standard implementation of Ruby
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## TruffleRuby Runtime Configurations
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We recommend that people trying TruffleRuby on their gems and applications
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[get in touch with us](#contact) for help.
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TruffleRuby is progressing fast but is currently probably not ready for you to
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try running your full Rails application on. However it is ready for
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experimentation and curious end-users to try on their gems and smaller
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applications, and to send us reports of issues they find.
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TruffleRuby can run Rails and is compatible with many gems, including C extensions.
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TruffleRuby is not 100% compatible with MRI 2.6 yet though, please report any compatibility issue you might find.
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TruffleRuby [passes around 97% of ruby/spec](https://eregon.me/blog/2020/06/27/ruby-spec-compatibility-report.html),
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more than any other alternative Ruby implementation.
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TruffleRuby might not be fast yet on Rails applications and large programs.
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Notably, large programs currently take a long time to warmup on TruffleRuby and
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this is something the TruffleRuby team is currently working on.
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Large programs often involve more performance-critical code and
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so there is a higher chance to hit an area of TruffleRuby which has not been optimized yet.
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## Releases
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