Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
Completely unscientific, but if these outputs are any indication, this is going to be great news for Rubby users in the future...  $ time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"                                                                                                                           
  hello world

  real    0m0.184s
  user    0m0.079s
  sys     0m0.092s

  $ time ~/Downloads/topaz/bin/topaz -e "puts 'hello world'"                                                                                                    
  hello world

  real    0m0.007s
  user    0m0.002s
  sys     0m0.004s