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We are then left with two choices: moving on, because going down this road will not offer a good return on investment of our time, or&#8230; ignore all common sense and dive down the rabbit hole to shed some light on that mysterious piece of tech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Choosing the latter is how I crossed paths with JRuby. Unlike Scala, this Java Virtual Machine language isn&#8217;t very popular, but it is used by Elastic, RedHat, and eazyBI among others. It has even been labelled as a &#8220;high performance&#8221; alternative to the standard Ruby implementation. JRuby and its Intermediate Representation (IR) format provide ahead-of-time compilation that turns standard Ruby files into Java ones that contain a serialized IR of the original code.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this talk, we will dive right down the rabbit hole of navigating through poorly documented software to turn black-box research to grey. 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