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<h2>What is Rubinius?</h2>
<p>Rubinius is an implementation of the <strong>
<a href="http://ruby-lang.org"> Ruby programming language</a></strong>.</p>
<p>The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++. The bytecode
compiler is written in pure Ruby. The vast majority of the core library is
also written in Ruby, with some supporting primitives that interact with
the VM directly.</p>
<p>Rubinius uses a precise, generational garbage collector. Rubinius
provides a foreign function interface (FFI) and a compatible C-API for
C/C++ extensions written for the standard Ruby interpreter (often referred
to as MRI—Matz's Ruby Implementation).</p>
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