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dehrmann on May 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Is JRuby Slow?

There's significantly more motivation to run JS faster since JS isn't a choice; if you need an interactive website, it will use JS. Ruby is a choice.

zizee on May 29, 2021 [–]

I guess everyone with significant investment in ruby codebases can just "choose" to rewrite everything in another language.

Whilst they are doing their multiyear rewrites, it would be nice if someone could optimise the ruby runtime a bit for them.

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