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Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by elif on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:44AM (#35481015)
Since they left ruby (2.0) raw rails performance improved by 75% (3.0)

https://www.fastruby.io/blog/assets/images/RRBPerfHistory_72...

Then in 3.2, ruby released YJIT which improved median rails response time by about 100%

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/easydatawarehousing/ruby_m...

It's kind of a golden era for rubyists that stuck it out. Beautiful maintainable code that hits C performance for many tasks.

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by Alifatisk on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:59AM (#35481122)
"... hits C performance for many tasks"

Really?

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by elif on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:40AM (#35482031)
particular improvements that come closer to C are related to string operations and regex

https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimen...

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by Alifatisk on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:56AM (#35482204)
Wow
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by mrwnmonm on Sunday April 09, 2023 @07:26AM (#35501704)
Didn't know that, thanks for the update. Actually, now I want to give it a try, remembering my old romantic days.