Turbo Rails with Rust

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Shows building a native Rails extension in Rust using a small runtime library and a file format that generates glue; Rust replaces C glue with libcruby plus TRB files and encodes Ruby types safely. Benchmarks show the Rust blank implementation at about 11M iters/s versus C ~10M and Ruby ~1M, and earlier C work gave up to 20× speedups over Ruby. Focuses on static dispatch, stack allocation and ownership to get C-like speed without unsafe crashes.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:29Performance challenges in Ruby
3. 6:18Optimizing with native extensions
4. 10:07Introduction to Rust
5. 12:25Rust memory and performance
6. 17:26The importance of stack allocation
7. 20:10Ownership and polymorphism
8. 25:59Benchmarking and library tools
9. 31:43The Turbo Ruby project
10. 36:07Future of Ruby and ownership

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