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TruffleRuby
@truffleruby.dev

TruffleRuby 25.0 is released! 🚀🎉 It can now run native extensions in parallel, just like Ruby code already ran in parallel in Threads on TruffleRuby! It also features many compatibility improvements and notably support for custom Digest algorithms. github.com/oracle/truff...

github.comRelease TruffleRuby 25.0.0 · oracle/trufflerubyTruffleRuby is a high-performance implementation of the Ruby programming language. It aims to be fully compatible with the standard implementation of Ruby, MRI. More information is available at htt...

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Kevin Menard
@nirvdrum.bsky.social

Running native extensions in parallel is a huge performance boost. Running a large internal Rails application, we saw performance roughly double. Very workload dependent, of course, but all of the major DB adapters are implemented as native extensions. We also added support for the blake3-rb gem.