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Tuning Ruby's Global Method Cache

I was recently profiling a production Shopify application server using perf and noticed a fair amount of time being spent in a particular function, st_lookup, which is used by Ruby’s MRI implementation for hash table lookups: Hash tables are used all over MRI, and not just for the Hash object; global variables…
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Jan 21, 2015Tuning Ruby's Global Method Cache by funion1098

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