Since I read about Google’s Chrome I can’t help but think, would Google’s V8 Javascript VM be a better choice for implementing dynamic languages like Ruby than the JVM ?

Some links

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html for high level details

http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&printsec=frontcover#PPP1,M1 this comic book goes into details about how they developed it and tested it and technical details about the new browser.