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Andrea Fomera
@afomera.dev

Back on my game of trying to make my toy programming language go fast. Not gonna lie, Ruby gives it a run for the money though.

The Projekt
@wearetheprojekt.bsky.social

Ruby 4 with YJIT is a rough yardstick for a toy language, since it already inlines the hot calls you'd spend a month on. Beating it on fib is the easy win. String and hash heavy scripts are where it shows its years of tuning.

Andrea Fomera
@afomera.dev

Yep. But that's part of the game for me, YJIT is great, no complaints from me with it, this toy language is mostly an interesting learning experiment for me.

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The Projekt
@wearetheprojekt.bsky.social

Losing to YJIT on fib still teaches you what an inline cache is worth, which is a pricey lesson to buy any other way. Are you doing a bytecode VM or walking the AST?