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Written by Jean Boussier on 2025-01-29 at 10:56

I wrote down my personal thoughts on whether it's worth removing Ruby's GVL and what it would take.

I wanted to talk about Ractors too, but this is already too long, so that's for another time.

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/01/29/so-you-want-to-remove-the-gvl.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2025-01-25 at 10:53

Before I can talk about Pitchfork, I obviously have to talk about fork.

If you ever did some system programming you likely won't learn much though.

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/01/25/why-does-everyone-hate-fork.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2025-01-23 at 11:49

I want to write a post about Pitchfork, but before I can get to that I need to share some thoughts.

I suspect this one may be more controversial than the optimizing JSON series 😅.

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/01/23/the-mythical-io-bound-rails-app.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2025-01-14 at 21:50

It is done, I finally concluded the ruby/json optimization series.

I hope you enjoyed it: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2025/01/14/optimizing-ruby-json-part-7.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2025-01-12 at 20:44

Here's most of the parsing optimization covered, only one extra part and the series should be over. But I have ideas of further topics.

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2025/01/12/optimizing-ruby-json-part-6.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2025-01-04 at 19:36

Part 5 is out, I'm finally done with the encoding side, so next time I can start talking about parsing:

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2025/01/04/optimizing-ruby-json-part-5.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2024-12-29 at 19:12

I thought that by part 4 I'd be done with JSON generation and that I could start talking about the parser in part 5, but apparently not.

This one is quite dense, let me know if some parts aren't as clear.

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2024/12/29/optimizing-ruby-json-part-4.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2024-12-27 at 12:04

I found a bit of time there and there to write part 3 over the last week, hopefully it isn't too disjointed.

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2024/12/27/optimizing-ruby-json-part-3.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2024-12-18 at 16:16

Since the first post was well received, that motivated me to continue, let's see how long it lasts https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2024/12/18/optimizing-ruby-json-part-2.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2024-12-17 at 21:48

I got quite a lot of free time lately, so I figured I'd use it to blog a bit. Hopefully it's worth the effort?

Here's the first one, about some of the optimizations I and others made to ruby/json recently: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2024/12/15/optimizing-ruby-json-part-1.html

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2024-11-06 at 16:10

And it's out: https://github.com/ruby/json/releases/tag/v2.8.0

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Written by Jean Boussier on 2024-11-06 at 12:57

This morning I though I was done optimizing the ruby/json parser, so I was doing some final cleanups before the 2.8.0 release. But nope, I found two more ~10% wins back to back...

This will never end...

https://github.com/ruby/json/pull/692

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