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Since they left ruby (2.0) raw rails performance improved by 75% (3.0)

https://www.fastruby.io/blog/assets/images/RRBPerfHistory_72...

Then in 3.2, ruby released YJIT which improved median rails response time by about 100%

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/easydatawarehousing/ruby_m...

It's kind of a golden era for rubyists that stuck it out. Beautiful maintainable code that hits C performance for many tasks.

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Didn't know that, thanks for the update. Actually, now I want to give it a try, remembering my old romantic days.

"... hits C performance for many tasks"

Really?

particular improvements that come closer to C are related to string operations and regex

https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimen...

here are some benchmarks from 2019 (ruby 2.5) related to string and regex operations. already certain operations were faster in ruby than C or go, particularly on longer strings.

http://jultika.oulu.fi/files/nbnfioulu-202001201035.pdf

Wow

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