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by CyberDildonics 996 days ago
Most companies don’t have unlimited budgets. Performance-oriented organizations profile and then spend money where profiling tells them to.

The bizarre part here is that anyone who paint themselves into a corner with ruby, then decide that they need to implement an entire new fancy VM instead of just find targeted bottlenecks and rewriting them in C++. They writing complicated native programs to make a VM that is only 15% faster when they could rewrite specific sections that are slow and speed those up by 200x or more.