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Re:Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster? by jiofih on Thursday February 11, 2021 @09:08AM (#26101631)
Concurrency != parallelism. You can of course run a multi-process cluster, but that’s besides the point (and these days it’s best to run a single process inside orchestration like k8s).

Basically almost every high performing server atm is running on some form of event loop / cooperative multi-tasking. Ruby Puma, Gunicorn, rust’s tokio and async/await, goroutines... Java is probably the big exception here (if you’re not using VertX et al) and we all know the pain of thread safety.

Re:Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster? by throwaway189262 on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:58AM (#26112720)
Very true. Go is an exception, and some day Java will be as well. They're both going route of userspace threads instead of reactive API's, thankfully.