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		carbotaniuman on Sept 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Io_uring for Ruby One way you can think of this is speeding up the "slowest programming language". And removing/reducing blocking calls has benefits for languages like Ruby too.

faizshah on Sept 9, 2024 | [–]

I found the easiest way to explain it is Ruby/Python/Lua are scripting languages for optimized C code.

slashdev on Sept 9, 2024 | [–]

A syscall is so fast compared to Ruby code. It really doesn’t make much sense to me.

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