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2024-12-02: My MacOS setup for hacking on CRuby

2024-11-28: Counting C method calls in CRuby

2024-11-27: My docker setup for hacking on CRuby

2024-11-26: Calculating the largest known prime in Ruby

Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C… in Ruby

There is a recent language comparison repo which has been getting shared a lot. In it, CRuby was the third slowest option, only beating out R and Python. The repo author, @BenjDicken, created a fun visualization of each language’s performance. Here’s one of the visualizations, which shows Ruby as …