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A Write Barrier Validating GC for RubyRubyKaigi 20262026-04-22
Built a write‑barrier validating GC called WB check that runs as a separate modular GC for CRuby, captures an initial snapshot of object references, records…
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Day 2 KeynoteRailsConf 20242024-05-07
Vernier is a sampling profiler for Ruby 3.2+ that actually records wall‑time and allocation samples together, surfaces 890,000 allocations from a bundler demo…
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Day 2 KeynoteRailsConf 20242024-05-07
A new Ruby 3.2+ sampling profiler called Vernier records both wall-clock and allocation samples, plus GVL, ractor, thread states, GC activity and idle time; it…
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Making .is_a? FastRubyConf Mini 20222022-11-15
Claim: Ruby's is_a? family used to cost 2–4% of runtime in real apps and scan long ancestor chains (one model had 305 ancestors, the repo had 92,000 classes)…
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YJIT: A Basic Block Versioning JIT CompilerVMIL 20212021-10-17
YJIT is a JIT built inside CRuby that implements Lazy Basic Block Versioning to record and specialize types only for paths actually seen at runtime. It runs as…
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