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Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by mtrower on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:21AM (#34244002)
To think I'd live to see the day the JVM is regarded as "really, really fast".

Ruby is not "pretty fast". The hardware you run it on is insanely, mind bogglingly, out of this world fast and so people don't notice the way that they used to.

...which is fine, you don't always need to be fast. Just be wary of misattribution.

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Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by pelasaco on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:53AM (#34244163)
The java based ruby, removes the GIL, which provides us real multithreading.

Truffleruby is "A high performance implementation of the Ruby programming language, built on GraalVM." If you prefer there is even a rust based ruby https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke

again, IMO, the microbenchmark, doesn't matter. What matters is the problem domain, whole stack and the whole "speed", including development, deployment and etc, and for some domains, ruby is the best and fast choice.

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Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by Alifatisk on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:55AM (#34247042)
Well, Ruby 3 has Ractors which is still in experimental stage but offers true multicore processing.

It's quiet fun to play around with actually, to see all your cores being utilized.

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