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by jashmatthews 2939 days ago
> The most impressive thing IMHO is how well Ruby is doing on maximum latency. I can't quite reconcile that considering fasthttp is pretty much zero-allocation and golangs stop the world is in the microseconds.. Pretty impressive.

Fast GC is critical to Ruby performance so a ton work went into it. Ruby 2.2+ has a very short STW phase thanks to generational GC + incremental marking.