Koichi Sasada is a Japanese computer scientist and a

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core committer. Formerly a member of

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's team at

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,Koichi Sasada's homepage
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from 2008 to 2012. He was responsible for the development of

YARV YARV (Yet another Ruby VM) is a bytecode interpreter that was developed for the Ruby programming language by Koichi Sasada. The goal of the project was to greatly reduce the execution time of Ruby programs. Since YARV has become the official R ...

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