MRI's Method Caches (opens in new tab)

> Is it just me or is that a bit of an odd name?

It's because there are a ton of Ruby implementations. MRI is the name for the official one that Matz works on.

If he said "Ruby's method caches," he would be wrong, this is about details of MRI specifically, and not, say, JRuby or Rubinius.

Given how much hackers love TLAs, and that there are what, 2600 of them, it's inevitable that there will be some amount of namespace clash. Ruby people reading a Ruby blog post aren't going to be confused about it, and while others may have momentary confusion, a few seconds later it's pretty clear what's being discussed.

Terms of Art are hard.

"just another web thing" really isn't accurate when talking about the Ruby interpreter.

Nope. It's probably not the smartest thing to call your tech. Those who know what it is will know, everyone else will think MRI (magnetic).

I think a good guideline for choosing an acronym is how many hits it already has on google. MRI: 73,800,000

MRI is more of a nickname. The software is actually called "Ruby", but thats confising nowadays.

Lol, because of your "field"