Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22
railsatscale.com
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.
  • Knusper@feddit.de
    18·
    1 year ago

    …in a very specific scenario and benchmark. And specifically in a situation where you’d extend Ruby with it.

    Really not a fan of this article’s title.

  • sim642
    12·
    1 year ago

    It doesn’t outperform C, it outperforms a C extension to Ruby.

  • fbmac@lemmy.fbmac.net
    2·
    1 year ago

    good article, but the C in this comparison is being called from Ruby inside a loop, it’s not as shocking as the title looks