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Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22

YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting our C in Ruby” instead.

2023-8-28 5:00pm Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 3,000 words

Rated 2025-2-12 9:06pm

Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI

Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.

2025-2-11 4:00pm Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-2-12 3:26pm