Status update on upb and Ruby Protocol Buffers

1 · Joshua Haberman · May 20, 2015, 4:53 p.m.
It has been a long time since I have posted any updates about upb, my implementation of Protocol Buffers. In 2011 I posted the article upb status and preliminary performance numbers, showing that upb’s JIT compiler yielded impressive performance results parsing Protocol Buffers, particularly when used as a stream parser. Since then there has been a lot of activity in GitHub, but still no releases, and I haven’t posted much about upb or where it’s going. It’s time for a status update On a pers...