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Rails Is a JIT Compiler
Hacker News | Oct 21, 2026 | hellerve
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I don’t know anything about Rails so I nerd sniped code << "def #{value_method_name}? ; #{name}_for_database == #{value. inspect}; end" Floats. But you’re still here, so I’ll repeat the numbers here. aaron@Aarons-MBP ~/g/rails (main)> ruby -I~/git/ips/lib test. rb shippable? : 1. 721M i/s (± 2. 3%, GC 4. 4%) aaron@Aarons-MBP ~/g/rails (main)> ruby --yjit -I~/git/ips/lib test. rb shippable? : 3. 568M i/s (± 2. 6%, GC 8. 2%) aaron@Aarons-MBP ~/g/rails (main)> ruby --zjit -I~/git/ips/lib test. rb shippable? : 3. 812M i/s (± 2. 8%, GC 8. 9%) aaron@Aarons-MBP ~/g/rails (fix-enum)> ruby -I~/git/ips/lib test.
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