Wicked Good Ruby 2013 - Understanding Ruby's Method Cache

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Channel: Confreaks · 2013 · Science & Technology

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By Sheena McCoy and Rachel Myers

How we call methods in a dynamic language like Ruby is complicated and fascinating. This talk dives into one slice of Ruby internals, the inline method cache. We'll walk through MRI's awesome but sometimes quirky method caching. And we'll go through some practical improvements we've made in

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