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Re:Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB by oblio on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:23AM (#38762033)
Isn't that the thing where it outputs C and then compiles the C code and then runs that?
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Re:Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB by ric2b on Monday December 25, 2023 @10:48AM (#38763538)
Yes, but it caches the generated code, so if you run a function 1000 times you only pay the compilation cost once.
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