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by greenpeas 1200 days ago
What happened on jun 14? (the dramatic drop in memory usage)

Edit: I guess this (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/5944) PR was merged.

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Yes. Prior to that point we used to allocate a large chunk of executable memory upfront. We switched to mapping that memory on demand, and that alone was a huge improvement.