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by jashmatthews 2785 days ago
I actually even tried compiling the module with HiPE but it made almost no difference so I didn't update the Gist. I've updated it to reflect the tiny improvement it made.

In terms of web, CRuby 1.9+ simply uses OS threads for concurrency and parallel IO. You will run out of CPU resources before "the runtime won't scale" on modern Ruby.