Memory Management in C Extensions – Part 2
Avoid pesky segmentation faults in Ruby native extensions! Join Jeremy Evans to learn the correct use of the Ruby C API to ensure memory is freed when…
Memory Management in C Extensions – Part 1
Looking to optimize some critical Ruby code with a native extension? Join veteran library maintainer Jeremy Evans for a demonstration of how to write …
Abstraction and Performance – Part 2
Join guest chef Chris Seaton for a lightning introduction to the tricks of just-in-time optimization. See how future Ruby implementations will enable …
Abstraction and Performance – Part 1
Join guest Chris Seaton in part 1 of a 2-part exploration of how code expressiveness and efficiency can sometimes be at odds, and what language implem…
Fiddle
In this episode, we'll learn how to call out to C libraries directly from Ruby code.
Assumptions
Today, a reminder about how misleading even "obvious" assumptions can be.
Benchmark
Today we'll learn how to answer our optimization questions with hard data.
Enumerable Internals
In this very special episode, guest chef Pat Shaughnessy takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Ruby internals that make the Enumerable#all? method tick.
Sleep
Today's episode tackles a subject I've always wondered about: how accurate is Kernel#sleep?
Atomicity
Today's is another threading episode. This time around, we tackle the subject of "atomicity", and learn about the false assumption at the root of many…